6th grade teacher Britnie Powell teaches student Isaiah Mendoza how to play the ukulele at the Salt Lake Center for Science Education in Salt Lake City Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012.
Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News
One of the ways to reduce the cost of public education while improving its quality is to eliminate public funding for art, music, dance, drama and sports. Young people have demonstrated that they are willing to devote thousands of their own hours and millions of their own dollars in private pursuit of those activities.
Class sizes can be reduced by reassigning those teachers to, essentially, reading, writing and arithmetic. The reassigned teachers can offer art, music, dance, drama and sports after school hours while getting extra pay from students and their parents.
We probably could then provide 12 years of public education that results in college equivalent BA degrees in many fields.
W. L. Haynes
West Valley City
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Please tell me you are not serious.
Some of the best education I ever received in HS was via Drama and ROTC.
Same is true for my kids. Their Choir teacher was perhaps the most demanding "coach" they had (and they More..
Bad, right-wing idea. This sounds like "Mr. Holland's Opus" redux, where, after learning that the music program was being eliminated at the high school where he taught, Glen Holland told the school board, in effect, that if the arts More..
I don't know, or care, if art and music and drama programs help kids learn math. What I do know is that they save lives.
Kids are not robots to be programmed with latest math and science software. Kids are human beings, with passion and More..