Anderson & Turpin wrote:
WM: It's the interplay of the arts and other subjects which help kids integrate their subject matter into a comprehensive whole. The kids have to do the art themselves.Argument #2 is still being argued here on the List. I don't think it is a valid argument. It's not like the arts will disappear if they are no longer taught in the schools.
Beyond that, if kids come from what has been described as an enriched home life, they will be getting music or dance or drawing. But kids coming from other homes may only get the opportunity to play and instrument or learn to draw/paint, etc. in school. In Minneapolis, kids coming from, I suppose, unenriched homes are a hefty chunk of our student population.
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