"Tax dollars should not be wasted on art, music or theater classes in high school. Public high schools should be about training young people to enter the workforce. Period."
I do not agree with this statement because the arts are an important part of the education system. The majority of tax dollars usually go towards athletics, and who's to say that athletics are more important than the arts? The arts help students find their inner creativity and a hidden passion they didn't know they had.
Art can help students escape from the problems they face every day. It can also be the way that they express themselves and their feelings when words don't do it justice. Art can be a coping mechanism for many people, and they may not know that it helps them until they take an art class in school.
