[Mpls] Arts in the Mpls schools

[Steve Nelson]

> Steve M Nelson wrote:
>> Art is all around is in most daily activities.  To pretend that we can
>> separate it from math and reading and have a complete education or that
>> including it somehow detracts from math and literacy sounds like someone
>> with an agenda to cut programs for some reason other than not raising the
>> taxes to fully fund a good education.
>
>
> Dorie Rae Gallagher wrote:
> That is exactly what is happening. People are being given the choice at 
> the
> neighborhood school forums to choose between math/ science or art / music.
> What use to be hand and glove is now one and none. The more our world 
> leans
> towards high tech, the more partcipants step back into the arts. It is a
> balance that is needed for mankinds existence. I know some feel one can 
> live
> by science /math alone but that world would be a void without creative
> beauty.
>
> Mark Anderson replies:
> So the question I would like answered is "WHY is teaching of the arts
> necessary for a complete education?"  And please don't explain the 
> necessity
> of the arts in society; I'd like to know why they need to be TAUGHT in our
> public schools.

I'm sorry, Mark, but if its necessity in society is obvious to you and you 
still wonder why it should be taught then I can only imagine that you will 
next be suggesting that we drop driver's education and just let everyone 
learn by doing.  By the way, did your father teach you to swim by throwing 
you in the deep end of the pool and letting you figure it our for yourself? 
Or did you take lessons?

Steven M Nelson
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