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Re: A&E Impressionist Competition...???

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Rdunkelart_at_TeacherArtExchange
Date: Tue May 01 2001 - 17:54:27 PDT

In a message dated 5/1/01 5:44:41 PM Central Daylight Time,
croberts@coastalnet.com writes:

<< Five minutes of fame on A&E, IMHO...is not a
> "good cause" when 20'some thousand art works end up in the dumpster or
> burned. I have problems throwing away art works that are left in my room
> that some kids show no apparent interest in keeping. Anyone else have
 that
> problem? That some competition would no doubt destroy the "losing" works
 is
> apprehensible and deplorable to me. >> I totally agree. Roberta

Could we all write to A&E and 1. encourage further contests and 2. let them
know
how important each entry is to each student and that they need to be returned
and 3. how difficult it is to work a contest suddenly into a curricullum.
and that we need more notice.

I wrote them at http://www.aande.com/cgi-bin/new_feedback.cgi Roberta 

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