Haddon Township High School Art Department suffered a major blow due to budget cuts. The high school school previously offered nine art electives. Between me and my colleague, Ellen Hargrove, we taught a variety of sequential based courses in various media, and also taught the sixth through eighth grade students at the middle school. This year, I'm doing it all.
For the 2010 - 2011 school year, there are only THREE art classes offered at the high school, now called: "Creative Arts". I will be teaching them as a 2-D / 3-D experience and will also be teaching all of the students at the middle school. Ellen has been reassigned to our elementary schools.
We're sad. We built a program up over the past seven years and within five months, watched it get reduced to a third of its size.
We'll see what the coming school year brings. Whatever it does bring, it's certain that it won't be better than what we already had.
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