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  • Wesley Heights Elementary School
  • Columbus, GA
  • Nearly all students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

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I teach art to 425 creative and energetic K-5 students at a Title I school. From this high poverty student population 88% receive free or reduced price lunch. These students face some socioeconomic hardship but that does not stop them from loving art and doing their best. As a matter of fact they look forward all week to their 40-minute art class. They are very proud of their artworks; it is inspiring to see the difference I can make in a child's life through art. But life in the art room is sometimes frustrating when you see a child crying because, by accident, someone stepped on his/her painting. We do not have a painting drying rack so the paintings are set up on the floor to dry, and therefore accidents happen. The lack of a safe and flat place to set up paintings for drying also means that from the 425 students only one to two classes per day can have a painting activity. Due to major cuts in our budget and furlough days, art is not getting funded.

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I teach art to 425 creative and energetic K-5 students at a Title I school. From this high poverty student population 88% receive free or reduced price lunch. These students face some socioeconomic hardship but that does not stop them from loving art and doing their best. As a matter of fact they look forward all week to their 40-minute art class. They are very proud of their artworks; it is inspiring to see the difference I can make in a child's life through art. But life in the art room is sometimes frustrating when you see a child crying because, by accident, someone stepped on his/her painting. We do not have a painting drying rack so the paintings are set up on the floor to dry, and therefore accidents happen. The lack of a safe and flat place to set up paintings for drying also means that from the 425 students only one to two classes per day can have a painting activity. Due to major cuts in our budget and furlough days, art is not getting funded.

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