Argumentative Analysis: Why Art Class Should Be Taught In Schools

I recently returned from the Wyoming State Drama competition for 2014 that was held in Gillette Wyoming, a competition where every school from the state is welcome to bring with them plays to perform and compete with. My high school from Worland took two major shows as well as numerous other technical and smaller shows to compete with at this competition. When it was all said and done our school took third place with one of our big shows, second place with the other, and fist place for our division. We also placed extremely well in the rest of the areas that we competed allowing us to in fact be state champions and get to have fire truck ride when we returned home with three trophies and multiple medals. Now of this would have been possible …show more content…
To start we talked about and decided that these classes are in fact beneficial to students who take them by teaching them life skills and lessons, but only students who want to take them. These fine art classes are filled with opportunities for the students to learn and do things that they might not have a chance to learn anywhere else. Opportunities such as hands on experience with educators who are educated in the area of the students interests. After we decided that these classes were in fact useful for the students who were taking them we talked about whether or not these classes should be included in all students’ education. I told you that personally I didn’t think that it was a good idea to force students to take classes such as art and drama if they didn’t want to in the first place and I gave you two good reasons behind my opinion. First I pointed out that it would be as waste of money to force students to take classes that they didn’t want to take such as art and music. It’s hard enough to make students to pay attention in classes that are important to everyone such as math and history, but to have students take fine arts classes would be even more anti-productive. The money that would be used to pay the teachers to teach the class, to buy the supplies and to send students where they need to go to participate would be wasted if the students in the class didn’t want to be there; A waste of money that could be detrimental and easily avoidable. Some people say that these classes would are necessary to provide students with a well-rounded education while they are in school. I know the importance of a well-rounded education as much as the next guy, but I don’t believe that forcing someone to take a class is