Persuasive+Essay


 * Schools should maintain there After school and during school performing arts and sports programs for Tomorrows leaders !!**

To my understanding some schools are planning on taking out art programs due to the budget cuts .This is a topic am highly serious about and must speak out on how i feel and why i believe that schools should keep art programs in school enviorments. I am aginst schools taking out art programs for three reasons .One reason is based on this is one way to eliminate studens ability to freely express them selves through the arts in a positive way. also because most out side programs cost money and may be difficult for some students to part take in due to income.

The first reason that I am against scools eliminating art programs is because students will have a less chance of truly expressing there selves.According to diane Gallegher whos has took part in the exprssive art festival she expresses her oppinion that "its not just entertainment for them its really giving them the purpose for carrying out there activites and learning to participate as a group ." Think of a time when you felt at your lowest point d somehow music helps you get through it music tells your story and expresses how you feel .performing art is a free way to let lose especially wen dealing with a long day of school .Growing up as a theatre major from the age of three i can honestly say being on stage is a fantasic feeling.Students may have a hard day but the minute that they arrive on that stage they become the music they become the song they become the character they become the dancer .Suddenly the student enters a new world of expression and can let there energy lose.

The reasons do not in there .Another reason that i am against schools canceling out art programs in school is because most out side programs cost moeny there for students depend on school to provide them with a place to learn the skills that are needed for free.55% of children are in low inome families and out of that 15.6 million actually have one parent who is working year round .The majority of 57% of low income parents who are working for full time part of the year have said it is difficult to find a decent job to be able to provide for there children. Imagine being a mother or a father with a child who had a dream that you just could not be able to afford for giving them all the proper tools in life they would need. As much as you wold love to be able to help them you can barley get by but with schools who are providing that you wil not have to worry as much.Now imagine if they were to take that a way from schools .That would just be one kid who could have been but never really got there because they didnt get they extra push or help that they needed to actually be succssesful at what they love to do.

The final reason that I am agaist schools closing out art programs is beause if affects there learnign.Most students who are serious about the arts are usally passing there classes .This is because there is a rule called no pass no play. This means student must get there act in order in there academics to be able to do what they love.The school rule known as no pass no play according to dagger news is a motivation for highschool student to pass every class our be barred from school sponsored extra ciricular activities .No pass means no football no dramma no nothing for high school students who are failing. This rule is applying that academics comes first and that there wll be consenquencs to students who fail .As for texas which was the first state to places no pass no play into schools but then this rule had begun to spread like wildfire into sixteen different states .This rule pushed students to do better before students could fail six classes and still be elgibale to get a diploma now students had to pass all of there classes to be able to do extra ciricular activites and graduate with fairness knowing that they earned it and were not slacking. This rule are applied to students who attend Harford county high school for example .There has been data that shows that when no pass /no play was enforced [|38 % of students were inelgiable for extra ciricular activites as for a few years later that percent rate has dropped and more students are elgiable to part take in extracurricular activites]

I know that some may argue that the rule "no pass no play "is not applied to all students who are not involved in performing arts or sports programs. According to Innovation charter high achool whisch is a high school that has little to no performing arts programs students are still supposed to stay on top of there academics if they do so there reward may not be able to be in a musical but it will be a educational reward to a field trip out of the state and other fun activities that student would like to part take in .Take me as a example a student who has had a lateness of 12 for a semester when being told that i was at risk of not being eligiable for attending a field trip out of the state i quickly got my attendance on track. That number of 12 had dropped dow to two lateness this way i was not missing any class time still able to participate in the activites despite the reward was not performing arts

As a result you can see maintaing art programs and other enrichment activities are not only a way for students such as my self to express them selves but it also is a way to keep us on track .This also allows the parents to save money on there children .There will be no could have been but did not get the chance to be because our schools did not provide if you keep these programs ,theses students will be tomorrows leaders who had teachers who push them and applied the no pass no play rule to show students that when you want something you have to go for it despite all of the odds. Tomorrows promise looks is bright and it will get brighter if we continue what we have originally started which is a better relationship with parents hard working students and a great place to do what you lvoe best and express your self.