I attended Tallulah falls Boarding school in north east Georgia. This school is very strongly academic based and over the last year we had a very big problem with our fine art program. The head of the Music Department Mrs. Joanne Harwell was very in love with what she did, she had various classes – Piano, Vocal chorus, and of course hand bells, our school was very small, and she had almost every student before they left the school. She had a tendency though, to think her classes were much more important than academics and athletics, and the school disagreed with her, I personally got behind in chemistry, and missed a cheerleading tournament just so I could practice a dance routine for the Christmas show. These problems only got worse and I remember Joanne telling me, you cant take the art of the schools or you will take the heart of the schools. She left our school, and it was never the same. We were loaded with more academics and no ways to express ourselves it was like prison. Art must be kept in the schools or children will go insane, okay?
Picture is from The Tallulah Spectacular 2007/08 :)
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