Sunday, February 25, 2007
Elite or Elitist?
DenverPost.com: "Walk the halls of Denver's strongest secondary school and it's not unusual to see ballerinas twirling by lockers or hear trombonists sliding jazz in the concert hall. Students in their spare time hold Edgar Allan Poe readings and stitch elaborate stage costumes into the wee hours of the night."
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I think that whatever it is that they want to do is their prerogative, being as they are private. It's nice to have some competition but the level sounds unhealthy at this school. It also is very different than here because you're dealing with children that are at a very different emotional level. It's not at the same level as here where people would congratulate each other on getting roles vs ending up with rivalries and isolation that little kids can tend to create because they refuse to see past the issue.
I like a lot of kids at CMU have come from magnet schools maybe not at the exact same level but like these kids when I was in 5th grade you audition and then hope and pray that you get in. My schools weren't private but they still had a focus on the arts and more than once I have heard about the problem of the rich kids having the advantage or not. And it does raise an interesting question because I have seen really rich kids with all sorts of training that have gotten in to these high school arts schools but at the same time I know of people who havn't had an ounce of training turn out to be some of the most talented people I have seen in a really long time. Being at a public school the requirements of the amount of kids being accepted has each year exponentially grown and the question brought up is if it is right to do this or not. Yes we see a larger variety of students being brought in but more and more kids lack the talent and more importantly the desire and want to be in this setting. With these larger numbers of students accepted to these special programs is it accepting students who want to be there or the number of parents who want their students to go to the fancy arts school?
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