Letter to the editor: Downsizing the wrong place

Editor:

As someone who has subscribed to the Saratoga Sun for some forty years, and seen the newspaper’s ups and downs, you are to be commended for carrying substantive information and opinion about the Encampment arts program. I would observe, however, that opponents to cuts in the program may have missed the most compelling arguments. First, the foundation for all learning is built in the primary grades, and earlier. Second, exercises in the arts encourage creativity in all fields, something which is becoming more and more essential to thrive, indeed survive, in today’s fast-changing workfor...