yeah, i'm not sure what our nation holds in the future. the trend for modern art holds it's pupils close to insanity sometimes and patience, technique and respectability seems to have dissapeared.
when i was in school, between 81-84 (10-14 years old) i was in a boarding school studying towards 14 gcse's (most day schools here let kids do 8) and Craft Design and Technology taught clay, metal & plastics, art (drawing, watercolours) with our teachers being artists that lived on the premises and were able to keep a respectible roof over their heads whilst still producing their own work
from 84-86 i moved to a religious dayschool and our teacher was proficient but not an artist. we covered drawing, pastels, guache, screen printing.
writing was always low down on the list, with only poetry looked at even though a very narrow band of genre IMO.
the kids i talk to now in the UK say the art they are taught is half hearted and the only parts that are taught with any seeming respect are metalwork & plastics as they at least offer some path into a trade, moving on to joinery, brickying and plumbing.
i've known some artistic talent in people that has been gained outside of school by parents that combined a babysitting service like a youth club by sending their kids along to private, safer groups offering art classes. as to writing, i've known a few people pumping out modern poetry but it's mainly teen angst and not a career for them. i've never met another writer, i attended nightschool at GCSE level for english qualifications where pupils on the course had never read a novel in their life, at A level where half the class admitted to only having read one or two!
if you are already on the path to making something of yourself, you are lucky. if you care about your kids possibilities then you will find them clubs outside of school hours. as to writing, thats a personal thing and at least the internet is here to join up like minded people, although you still have to sort the wheat from the chaff (i might have posted in the past about certain "boys clubs" on international, large websites with writers areas where the real writers don't appear to get any feedback on their work, but certain groups of people are singing each others praises even though their submissions are not literate, not even enough for a comic book!)