The Importance of Art
The quote, "Tax dollars should not be wasted on art, music or theater classes in high school. Public high schools should be about training young people to enter the workforce. Period.", shows that people believed school should be used to train kids for nothing but work. It shows that people do not believe that art, music, and theater are actual jobs and are just extra classes for kids to waste time in or have fun. The quote is saying that arts and theater does not have any importance whatsoever. Budget cuts have been happening for years now so artitic classes are being cut because they seem to have next to no importance.
Art classes have just as much importance as an English class. For many people, art is a way to express themselves and get away from the sometimes harsh, and stressful academic classes. School should not be about trying to prepare students for the workforce, it should about preparing students for any kind of future. Based on the classes a student takes could depend on how they want to spend their future. Being forced to take certain classes may have no possible benifits for a certain individual. Many kids might not even go into the workforce, and if they do it could be years later. And according to statistics by MyTuition, about 95% of what is learned after just three days is forgotten.
Tax dollars should be 'wasted' on arts and theater in highschool because it not only helps some students relax, it also gives them something to look foreward to each day. It lets kids engage in fun activities and have a good time and possibly make friends. Times have changed drastically and the world is a much different place than it was say fifty years ago where nothing but work was expected.
Art classes have just as much importance as an English class. For many people, art is a way to express themselves and get away from the sometimes harsh, and stressful academic classes. School should not be about trying to prepare students for the workforce, it should about preparing students for any kind of future. Based on the classes a student takes could depend on how they want to spend their future. Being forced to take certain classes may have no possible benifits for a certain individual. Many kids might not even go into the workforce, and if they do it could be years later. And according to statistics by MyTuition, about 95% of what is learned after just three days is forgotten.
Tax dollars should be 'wasted' on arts and theater in highschool because it not only helps some students relax, it also gives them something to look foreward to each day. It lets kids engage in fun activities and have a good time and possibly make friends. Times have changed drastically and the world is a much different place than it was say fifty years ago where nothing but work was expected.
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