Budget Cut Argumentative Essay

Recently schools have had to make lots of budget cuts, and in order to accommodate them, they have to drop extracurricular classes. One of the victims of budget cuts is art classes. Art classes offer many benefits such as helping children develop problem solving skills as well as motor skills, expressing themselves, and also encouraging creative thinking. I believe that it is important to offer those classes in school, and to spare them from budget cuts.

Budget cuts are made because of the limited spending a school district has. Eighty percent of schools nationwide experience budget cuts. The more severe the cut, the more classes dropped from schools. Budget cuts most often slash dance, art, and theatre programs first. “When cutting programs, superintendents strive to cut those that have the least impact on learning and that create the least amount of controversy,” says Dave Dickson of NFHS.org. Schools will often cut the fine arts programs before sports because many feel that the sports teams are the heart of the school community, and the outcry will be much less. The response may not be as intense when cutting a fine arts program, but the effects are. Kids no longer receive any of the benefits that art provides …show more content…
Whether it be taking out field trips or finding other solutions, most would be better than cutting entire classes. In the Grapevine-Colleyville school district, superintendent Kevin Singer is finding creative solutions to make ends meet. The printing press in the school wasn’t being used after-hours, so for $30,000, the city government used it to crank out copies. The parking lots outside of the football stadium were going unused as well, so Singer rented them out during business hours to a company across the street. The total revenue for one year by renting out those parking spaces was