Fine Arts Should Continue to Be Taught In School

1. Should the Arts be kept in public schools?

2. Do the Alphabet Song and Twinkle Twinkle Little Star really have the same tune?

3. Why did you just sing both of those songs in your head?

I am going to be responding to the first question.

Of course the arts should continue to be taught in public schools. Unlike most of the core content classes, all art classes, whether it be drawing classes, pottery classes, dance, orchestra, or ,most importantly, band, we, the we are able to express who they are through the arts. In math, you use logistics and memorized rules to solve problems with definite answers. In science you go through certain necessary procedures to prove or disprove a hypothesis. In middle and high school english classes we are being taught rules on grammar and sentence structure and we are taught how to properly write. It isnt until college where students take classes specifically for students expressing themselves through literature. But in high schools and middle schools, the only way we are able to express who we really are or express what we can be good at is through the arts. People can be good and and can be happy solving math equations and proving points to find definite, concrete answers. But wheres the fun in that? We should be encouraged to think of 10 different meaning of a painting and have endless conversations on what the artist was trying to convey through a certain piece of music. For some of us, the arts is all we have, myself included. Im not a mathematician, nor a science wiz, or a writing protege, but when it comes to music, i can express who i am to an audience. We as young musicians can come together to move an audience. A group of young artists can paint a mural that gives hope to sick children in a hospital who dont find hope in anything else. Take the Beatles for example. Four young adults, each passionate about what they do, change the music industry for good, creating and endorsing a new culture all together. All through the power of art. All it takes is a dedicated teacher that gives a young sixth grader a trumpet for the first time to create a new generation in art that will open windows of new opportunity and new potential for generations to come that changes the world.