#public schools
This post is going to try and summarize the AAP statement regarding returning to school in the age of COVID-19. The article CAN BE FOUND HERE. I highly recommend primary care providers review this material directly. It is very thoughtfully written and brings up a lot of issues that most folks don’t take into account when talking about and formulating opinions on this topic. I’m going to be focusing on the WHY more than the HOW. I will touch on some major themes with the HOW, but that aspect is very age dependent and depends on available school resources, personnel, and planning. This is going to be dense, but let’s do it.
WHERE DO WE LEARN? NEW REPORT FINDS ARTS EDUCATION INCREASINGLY HAPPENS OUTSIDE OF SCHOOL
“A new report by The Wallace Foundation argues students are increasingly finding valuable arts education exposure via technology they access outside of the classroom - and teachers should use that to their advantage.”
Read:Where do we learn? New report finds arts education increasingly happens outside of school
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OBAMA “HOPE” ARTIST: PUT MUSIC BACK IN SCHOOLS
“Graphic designer and street artist Shepard Fairey is well known for images like the OBEY logo and those iconic posters of Barack Obama from his 2008 election campaign. [Now] Fairey’s latest project is all about getting art back on the agenda in schools…”
Read:Obama “Hope” Artist: Put Music Back In Schools
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AMID TESTS AND TIGHT BUDGETS, SCHOOLS FIND ROOM FOR ARTS
“National arts education statistics suggest that these days, arts are a persistent—but uneven and thinning—presence in American schools. A 2012 U.S. Department of Education report that compared surveys from 1999-2000 and 2009-2010 found that music was offered in 94 percent of elementary schools during both timeframes, and that visual art offerings dropped only slightly, from 87 percent of schools in 2000 to 82 in 2010.”
Read:Amid Tests and Tight Budgets, Schools Find Room for Arts
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WE KNOW YOUR MUSIC TEACHER MATTERS TO YOU.
Tell us why and your school music program could win a $2,500 grant from the Music Empowers Foundation!
All you or you school needs to do is send us a one minute video explaining why your school’s music program and your music teachers matter.
For more details and to enter, visit Music Teachers Matter Video Contest’s official page.
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AFTER YEARS OF CROUCHING, ARTS ED IS RAISING ITS HAND AGAIN
“Today, more and more policymakers think it is the arts, after all, that can motivate kids, engage them and help them develop 21st-century skills such as teamwork and innovative thinking — in sum, be the key to their salvation.”
Read: After years of crouching, arts ed is raising its hand again
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ART IS “AMERICA’S SECRET WEAPON FOR POSITIVE CHANGE”
“The arts provide a way for people better to understand "who they are in a time in history where that is desperately needed.”
Read: Art Is “America’s Secret Weapon for Positive Change”
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LOBBYING FOR MUSIC
“If there is too much focus on non-creative subjects in our schools, I believe that our educational programs across the nation would suffer,” said McCutchon, the current secretary of UD’s NAfME chapter. “Music not only teaches students how to understand and play music, but also key skills such as teamwork, time management, forward planning, and organization. Music in itself is such a powerful tool that anyone can connect to no matter how small that connection may be.”
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lmao my principal really just shaded my entire school like that!! like i know we’re all bitchy but nc schools are shit so you really can’t blame us
A reminder that if public schools shut down, millions of children will lose their access to some of the only meals they receive each day.
Food banks will become more important, and I’ve learned the best way to help is not to donate your spare canned goods, it’s to donate money.— Clint Smith (@ClintSmithIII)March 9, 2020
On February 3, 1964, the Rev. Milton Galamison led the largest student boycott in the history of the New York City public school system, with 464,361 students staying home to fight for the end of school segregation.
(viaUntapped Cities)
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What a piece of work. How can this monster call himself a Christian. This is just the tip of the iceberg with this hate monger. Oh yeah, and he’s anti-vax and anti-mask.
‘Mr Bodkin, miss, so I understand from the ties in his drawer, was educated at Eton. That’s where he’s handicapped in these matters. Eton, as you may have heard, is one of our English public schools, and the English public school system,’ said Albert, warming to a subject to which he had given a good deal of thought, 'isn’t at all what an educational system should be. It lacks practicality and inspiration. If you ask me, they don’t learn the little perishers nothing.’
P.G. Wodehouse, The Luck of the Bodkins 1935. So there’s nothing new about it.
(In case it’s necessary to explain to readers outwith these islands, the English public schools are exclusive private schools, which continue to provide the UK with a disproportionate number of senior politicians, judges and other leading establishment figures.)
