The Importance Of Funding In High Schools

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High school choral and theatre departments are suffering. High schools only help fund sports, and that is horribly unfair. These departments have to fundraise to get their money, and they use it buy microphones, props, and lights. Plus, they don't need as many like sports needing hundreds of jerseys and equipment. Choral and theatre departments need funding from their high schools.

Theatre is a big part of many lives. If you take a look at the numbers, there are thousands of aspiring actors out there, and their schools refuse to fund and help them with the shows they put on. The money they make comes from the fundraisers they do, and from the people who pay for the tickets to see the shows. Even with that money, it rarely equals or amounts

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