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Apr 16, 2013
I am wondering how visual arts classes are treated in terms of scheduling at other high schools. At ours, we've been giving students choice sheets to fill out indicating their preferences from a long list of electives (Visual Arts, Performing Arts and miscellaneous). To my shock, much fewer than 50% of our students, including incoming 9th graders chose Visual Arts classes for next year. This kind of thing can threaten to close classes in the Visual Arts as well as, in a worst-case scenario, cause us to lose teachers in our department.
The whole thing seems very strange to me. I would assume it's normal that a Visual Arts department would set up the classes they're willing to offer and the kids would choose from those. Otherwise, the department would have to constantly appeal to kids through ...See More
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On 4/25/13, Jenna wrote: > I teach in a tiny school - about 70 kids at the high school level. > Our kids list the core classes they need for the next year, followed > by electives they want in descending order of preference. If you > have fewer than ten kids signed up for a class, the principal asks > you to talk to kids and try to d...See More
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