Artists visited schools and led students through workshops about music and ceramics. One time we took them to the Fred Jones Museum in Norman. Roberts hopes lawmakers find a way to increase funding for the arts during the legislative session. Research suggests Roberts is right.
A University of Arkansas study found young people who were exposed to the arts were more tolerant and empathetic. Other studies show consistent access to arts education is associated with a reduced dropout rate. Click here to donate online to support our journalism. January 17, pm. Bio Recent Stories. Aside from that, my school offered visual arts, vocal music, instrumental music, dance, musical theatre, and acting programs of study.
However, my high school experience was much different from the grade school experience of most. Arts education is not made a priority in many classrooms nationwide. Schools in urban areas are especially lacking in arts education. This phenomenon is detrimental to students because arts education has been proven to be beneficial. In adults, participating in art activities can be linked to increased civic engagement and greater social tolerance, so teaching students these skills early can improve the likelihood of continued participation in arts activities down the road.
In schools, arts education can improve school climate and empower students with a sense of ownership over their work, just to name a few. If arts education is so critical, why is it always being cut? Often, the issue comes from funding.
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Menu Search. Latest Profile. Contact About. Read more. Schools use the programs that make money to fund other programs, such as their actual academic necessities, such as textbooks and technology. Another reason that schools are cutting their fine arts programs is that the fine arts programs require a large percentage of the budget.
It is an education budget after all. So why are education programs the first to be cut, and not extra-curricular activities like the sports programs? I know that in many high schools, football is the best funded program or other sports depending on the individual school districts. So why not cut funding equally to all programs to keep them, although slightly smaller, still existent.
I think that would be much more fair than just mainly cutting funding to the fine arts education programs. One final thing to consider: a lot of high school and middle school sports programs require participants to pay a certain amount in dues.
One way to make up the deficit here is to increase the dues for kids in sports and to create dues for the fine arts programs. There are other programs that could be cut, all programs could be equally cut, or programs could be funded by other means before fine arts education is cut. But then again, that may have been because we had a relatively small auditorium. And even then, the sports games made a lot more money. I think they chose to cut funding to the fine arts rather than sports just because the majority of people choose to go to a football game rather than a play, and they are just trying to be fair to the majority, and cutting out the minority.
I believe the Renaissance was a time of advancement in science and engineering. The art was really more of an indicator of scientific advancement. I support the arts, but more emphasis should be placed on STEM education, in my opinion.
For example, football teams can win championship games. People can get trophies and hang their championship wins in the gym. Art gives students a way to express themselves and can create an incredible sense of pride in students. Sure student artists create pieces of art, but the most recognition student artists get is when the professor hangs their art up in the school hallways if they do that.
Because football gives schools something to brag about and a very easy way to compare themselves to other schools, it is placed ahead of arts, which only give the students the benefits. I like your view but sometimes we have to look at things purely economically.
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