| Thank you for your thought on this. However, my child is finishing up sophomore year and it is bit too late to start anything school based. Besides, parents are mostly not informed about art education at all. More likely this school is chosen over their much risky zone school otherwise they have to attend, not necessary because it specialized in art. There was a parent asked, “what’s portfolio?” “whtya mean abstract?” in college info meeting.
One thing the school has is long history and few super famous alumni whom never care to visit school or do anything for students. Some teachers are working artists and themselves are alum from better era and sort of laugh at pushy parents like myself and not much of help. They believe students can make it if they ‘have’ it like they did without helicopter parents.
Our defense is to sniff around outside of school and that’s what I have been doing including this site.
So I was sitting in Cooper’s waiting room keeping spot for summer outreach review with portfolio while my child was in other school taking weekend class, running late, me worrying while spying on what other kids are bringing in.
My child show up, I gave sigh of relief, go out to get cup of Starbucks that adjacent to the school (just this once, ---I am cutting off coffee budget)
My child’s reviewer’s first advice is
“Tell you mom to leave you alone” |