The Importance of Art

"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."

Art, music, and theater classes are essential to a student's overall growth as a person as well as their way of thinking. In places where math and science classes fail to teach, the arts stimulate different parts of thinking such as creativity and self expression. Without these things, students will learn a very "black and white" way of thinking, in which real world situations wont always cover. 

The Arts inspires students to be themselves as well as helps them to be more creative. They also allow school to be more interesting for students who aren't dedicated to math, science, or history. By eliminating art, music, and theater classes, people are making school a more boring place that students will less likely enjoy. Art classes give students a break from "black and white" thinking. They exercise a different part of the brain, a part that helps them to develop who they are. 

Classes related to the arts are just as essential as core classes. Though they may not teach Calculus or Algebra, they teach something much bigger, self expression. Without arts classes, school becomes a grey area where students are all forced to learn the same unexciting things. Instead of creativity, students learn only structure. They will not be able to discover who they are, so they will only ever strive in the workplace as someone being told what to do.