Day 17, PD Day

Today is a professional development day, everybody is heading over to the high school.  No students today just us teachers.  Today I got my first glimpse of the high school art room and I must say it is divine however it doesn't have the gently used art room look that B.H.S had.  But it does have a similar set up I am really looking forward to working in there.  The first half of the day was quite interesting hearing about the districts plans to build a fine arts house hear at the high school level.  while the afternoon session was filled with a lot of negativity and venting of frustration.  I feel that I came away from the PDD with two things one if you don't have something create it.  My high school had an awesome program that was not funded by the school district but through fund raising by the students.  This gave them a sense of ownership and connected them to that room.  I feel that there should be more fundraising to support the arts programs.  The second thing I learned kind of ties into the first.  If this art house is ever going to get off the ground there needs to be an influx of money pouring into the elementary schools because the budget discrepancy is difference is ridiculous.