At some point during the school year there is a class of students hard at learning. The choice of course is left to the imagination, but the presence of these students and a hard working teacher is a reality. Unfortunately, there are times when this reality comes at the expense of a fine arts program. As summer vacation draws to a close, teachers once again begin preparing for their lessons. For the first time in a dozen years I will not be one of them. In 2016, I reached