In case you weren't listening...
The Save GCS Arts folks may have been at home watching Law & Order: SVU (now that is what an arts education gets you -- a job in Hollywood!) Tuesday night, but that doesn't mean the school board wasn't thinking about you.
For weeks, the pro-arts community has packed the school board meeting room, filling the public comment period and waving tiny flags in support of expanded music and art education in the district. Last night, crickets.
But clearly their message has struck a cord with board members. Way into the wee hours of the meeting, when the board members make parting comments before their adjournment, several board members reiterated their support for art programs.
Darlene Garrett said she would hate to think what would happen to the community if they cut the programs any more.
"I know we didn't mean to cut (the arts), but any time we can I think we should expand and schedule that," Dot Kearns said.
No word yet if the arts community with take board chairman Alan Duncan up on his suggestion to go bug the county commissioners -- the folks who are controlling the purse strings.