This weeks reading is about the arts in schools across America. The article goes into the issue of math and sciences taking over schools and their funding. With the economic times that we are in, many schools have had to cut budgets by huge amounts. This caused many schools across the country to find ways to save money; many started cutting funding to the arts. I have never been into the arts, but I know many people that are. The arts allow people to express themselves and give students another way to be involved.
If there were not arts in the school system, todays students would not be the same. School would be an endless game of memorizing and regurgitating facts. I was never involved in the arts other than the one art class that I was required to take in order to graduate, but I do think that schools should incorporate art in the curriculum.
If you had been in some form of art, do you think your life would be different in any way?