Re: [Mpls] Arts in the Mpls schools

[WizardMarks]

Anderson & Turpin wrote:
The point I've been trying to make is that the three R's should come first,
before the arts, before science, before history and civics. ...
WM: This is my point of disagreement. The 3 Rs, yes, and the arts. 
Kindergartners and pre-kindergartners don't get much science, history, 
or civics. The arts are great ways of addressing arithmetic (so are the 
odds at the race track, the way I learned), they also address hand-eye 
coordination, and better still, hand-eye-mind coordination. Listen to a 
four year old sing; it takes a while to hear and have the voice repeat a 
sound, it takes even longer to repeat a series of sounds.

The most important part of this discussion is that, even in broke times, 
we cheat ourselves, the world, and the species when we cheat the children.
WizardMarks, Central

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