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Students and retired teacher urge Brookings board to preserve middle-school art as superintendent defends schedule changes
Summary
A retired art teacher and a seventh-grade student urged the Brookings School District board to retain middle-school art access; Superintendent Dr. Schultz said art is not being eliminated but that schedule and boundary audits require staffing reassignments to meet budget and class-size targets.
A retired Brookings teacher and a seventh-grade student urged the Brookings School District 05-1 board to keep robust art offerings at Mickelson Middle School, saying classroom access and student engagement would suffer if staffing is reduced.
"I would like to share my concerns with the cutting of the Mickelson Middle School art department," said Sean Hassett, a retired district art teacher, who read a letter citing research that regular arts participation correlates with higher academic recognition and lower disciplinary incidents. "Creating only one position for one art teacher in the building the size of Mickelson Middle School does not come close to meeting the needs of our deserving students," he said.
Seventh-grader Reese…
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