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Michael Gove the Education Minister here in the UK today controversially announced that high School examinations would all be changed ........ much to the annoyance of students currently sitting the high school GCSE's.... what they fear will now become discredited qualifications when the new ones come on stream .........

This is the kind of news I might have been covering way back in the day ......... I have not photographed a British Education Minister for years ....... but at one stage in the past I used to shoot front cover photographs for the Times Education Supplements ......... I don't really specialize in educational news these days but I do like to sometimes visit the occasional school ...... I was in a fantastic American high school the other day ........ up in Chicago........ If I was a youth living in or around Chicago this would be my High School ......... The Chicago Academy for the Arts ........... http://chicagoartsacademy.org/ ..........

Me and Matt popped round there to shoot ............ wooow ..... what a great place ......... what a great bunch of folks both the faculty and the students ............ designed to be 'The' place for an arts education ......... with especially amazing dance and visual arts, theatre and music programs ..... but actually amazingly rigorous and successful in all the more conventional academic studies too ......... I was in the maths class on two or three occasions......... it was all being conducted with great enthusiasm but also at a very high standard with students clearly enjoying their excellence in mathematics. I have to say the dance sessions were breath takingly amazing .......... of course film making was really interesting ...... theatre ......... music ...... the painting and 3D art works ......... It was all amazing ............ The whole place has a great outward looking perspective ........ I even met a student who knew someone in my family in London :-))) ........... yeah this really is a mighty fab place......... :-))))))))))

If you are an artistic soul currently at high school in the vicinity of Chicago ......... CAA really should be your school .............. hehehehe............ :-)))))))))))

In the above picture are some of the students in the Theatre Department are getting ready to perform.

Cheers Jez XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

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