"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."
I believe tax dollars are not wasted on art, music, and theater classes. These classes are essential in the growth of teens in high school. Students earn valuable life skills in these classes that they will not exactly get from other classes. In art classes, students learn to manage time, focus, pay attention to small details, be creative, solve difficult problems, and analyze images with a new and refreshed view. In music classes, students gain skills of a variety of physical skills like coordination, communicating with peers, patience, discipline, boosted self esteem, and their openness to other cultures. Lastly from theater classes, students learn about public speaking, overcoming stage fright, imagination, self-confidence, concentration, tolerance, problem solving, and having strong memory skills. These are all things that you really do not learn from other core classes the way you’ll learn in these.
In addition, I think public high schools should not be about training young people to enter the workforce. High school is another step in kids growing up, and for a good part of high school, they may not be ready to be trained to enter the workforce. This may not be true for some students, but for the most part, high school should continue being a place where students expand their education in their core subjects and the other activities they wish to pursue and prepare to go to higher schools. Being prepared to be in the workforce is something for the next level of schooling they will be going into.
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