Originally posted in a LVRJ Forum
A music teacher might be teaching more “music appreciation classes”
McEducation. My kids are homeschooled. They receive best-of-breed music lessons from a very good, competitively priced, private piano teacher. CCSD provides a completely superficial education. Not enough instruments. Really. And what the heck is a "Director of Fine Arts Education"?
There seems to be no instrument shortage for LVA music students. What gives? Separate is *not* equal.
How does CCSD get away with such huge school disparities? Kids in one school receive arts enrichment, but kids in another school get music de-appreciation. If CCSD is going to provide McEducation the least it can do is offer a standard menu.
Showing posts with label LV_Academy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label LV_Academy. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Monday, October 5, 2009
Las Vegas Academy Conceit
Originally posted in a LVRJ forum.
LV Academy kids ought to be less condescending towards their poorer CCSD counterparts. Poor parents might start to resent your attitudes and lobby their Assemblymen to provide equal opportunities for *their* kids. Then your little club will start to look more like *other* public high schools.
I don't know how much parents pay in LVA fees and after-school private instruction, but they're getting away cheap. Private *elementary* arts schools go for $20-$25K per year! None of you ever send me so much as a "thank you" note.
Your public school can't be as great as you all seem to think. It must be quite bureaucratic. It must embrace affirmative action, diversity, and other left-wing notions. It must inculcate a fair amount of uniformity, especially in thought. Seems like *none* of you have been exposed to ideas such as the government which governs least, governs *best*. Indeed, the opposite must be true. Your principal is a double-dipper at the public trough. LVA by day, and NEA/NEH by night.
LV Academy kids ought to be less condescending towards their poorer CCSD counterparts. Poor parents might start to resent your attitudes and lobby their Assemblymen to provide equal opportunities for *their* kids. Then your little club will start to look more like *other* public high schools.
I don't know how much parents pay in LVA fees and after-school private instruction, but they're getting away cheap. Private *elementary* arts schools go for $20-$25K per year! None of you ever send me so much as a "thank you" note.
Your public school can't be as great as you all seem to think. It must be quite bureaucratic. It must embrace affirmative action, diversity, and other left-wing notions. It must inculcate a fair amount of uniformity, especially in thought. Seems like *none* of you have been exposed to ideas such as the government which governs least, governs *best*. Indeed, the opposite must be true. Your principal is a double-dipper at the public trough. LVA by day, and NEA/NEH by night.
Friday, October 2, 2009
Public Education Is A BAD Deal for Taxpayers
Originally posted in a LVRJ Forum
Most of you seem to know how *awful* the CCSD schools are. Even if Las Vegas Academy is exceptional (and I don't concede that), the price of maintaining one good CCSD school is the cost of (I think) hundreds of bad ones. That's a bad deal.
The Nevada Constitution requires at least one public school per district. If it will make you feel better, I would not object too strongly if LVA were it.
Most of you seem to know how *awful* the CCSD schools are. Even if Las Vegas Academy is exceptional (and I don't concede that), the price of maintaining one good CCSD school is the cost of (I think) hundreds of bad ones. That's a bad deal.
The Nevada Constitution requires at least one public school per district. If it will make you feel better, I would not object too strongly if LVA were it.
Thursday, October 1, 2009
CCSD Promotes Teen Pregnancy
Originally posted in a LVRJ Forum
As many of you know (or should), affairs between high school teachers and students are commonplace. Teen sex is the rule. I suspect these happen more frequently at LVA than any other CCSD high school simply because arts courses involve much closer physical contact between the participants, who tend to be hot-blooded anyway.
As many of you know (or should), affairs between high school teachers and students are commonplace. Teen sex is the rule. I suspect these happen more frequently at LVA than any other CCSD high school simply because arts courses involve much closer physical contact between the participants, who tend to be hot-blooded anyway.
CCSD OUT of Arts Education
Originally posted in a LVRJ Forum
During a recent lunch period, one student was .. playing a classical melody on her clarinet while in transit.
There are plenty of private music conservatories to choose from. You can get a clarinet teacher to come to your house for as little as $25 a lesson. These arts magnet schools are just political schemes to provide patronage jobs to left-wing fine arts teachers, and to incubate a constituency for future unconstitutional state arts commission grants. If these kids want to study theatre there must be any number of community groups and summer camps to choose from. Leave the taxpayers out of it.
During a recent lunch period, one student was .. playing a classical melody on her clarinet while in transit.
There are plenty of private music conservatories to choose from. You can get a clarinet teacher to come to your house for as little as $25 a lesson. These arts magnet schools are just political schemes to provide patronage jobs to left-wing fine arts teachers, and to incubate a constituency for future unconstitutional state arts commission grants. If these kids want to study theatre there must be any number of community groups and summer camps to choose from. Leave the taxpayers out of it.
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
CCSD Theatre Fluff
Originally posted in a LVRJ Forum
"Ascension Day" and "Bang Bang You're Dead" are two small-scaled one-acts, mediocre in writing and direction, that want to make the world a better place. [Bang] has been rewritten post-Columbine. It tries to get inside the head of Josh, an ostracized high-school student turned killer.
Why do taxpayers tolerate this kind of fluff? If we're forced to pay for educating other people's children, the least we should be able to expect is for them to learn basic skills. Can any of these cast members (students) read Shakespeare, or even know who he was? Can any of them pass algebra?
Every one of these arts schools hires some black guy from Cleveland who dresses up in African tribal garb, calls himself Mbafa Kumpundi, and shows kids how to beat on drums. This gig is called "cultural sensitivity". I know of a performing arts high school in another large, urban school district. All day long "diverse" faculty members tell kids that Whites are oppressors.
"Ascension Day" and "Bang Bang You're Dead" are two small-scaled one-acts, mediocre in writing and direction, that want to make the world a better place. [Bang] has been rewritten post-Columbine. It tries to get inside the head of Josh, an ostracized high-school student turned killer.
Why do taxpayers tolerate this kind of fluff? If we're forced to pay for educating other people's children, the least we should be able to expect is for them to learn basic skills. Can any of these cast members (students) read Shakespeare, or even know who he was? Can any of them pass algebra?
Every one of these arts schools hires some black guy from Cleveland who dresses up in African tribal garb, calls himself Mbafa Kumpundi, and shows kids how to beat on drums. This gig is called "cultural sensitivity". I know of a performing arts high school in another large, urban school district. All day long "diverse" faculty members tell kids that Whites are oppressors.
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