Throughout reading the essay, the writer drifted away from their main focus, music and art in school, and went into why math and reading is important and why many people want to focus on that throughout the course of public education. They also focus a great amount on the economy. What the writer should have done was talk more about why music and the arts should be encouraged rather than talking about math and reading. Right away the writer was using Straw Man because their essay topic and their essay do not match; the writer is using an easier
