RESPONSE TO CLASS ACT

The author immediately pointed out that the Academy of Arts isn’t mostly known “as the largest private art school”, but rather as the school where two reality stars met each other and how the director of the Academy’s fashion department, Simon Ungles, encouraged Heidi Montag to quit school, go to LA to become a celebrity, just to get her own line; this seems like she wanted to start off sending out a bad appearance of the Academy as to make the director of the fashion department seem like he couldn’t care less about helping his students pursue their dreams through education. I had a hard time finding positive comments on the Academy, instead all I could see were remarks that ridiculed the Academy and Ungless; like “…a bespectacled Englishman whose broad shoulders and buzz cut made him look more like a drill sergeant…”Whenever I found the few positive comments on the Academy, they were always followed by sarcastic remarks. It looked to me as if the writer wanted to make the Academy seem as a quickly growing school which had only grown because every kid with no talent as an artist and the money for the tuition could get in as easily as the most talented one, unlike other prestigious art schools.