There are many issues about education and are still debating until nowadays. One of arguments said that arts subjects as painting or drawing should not be made compulsory for high school students. In my perspective, I agree with this issue.
In my opinion that the arts are professional area for people who have talents and passions in fields. In other words, to succeed as an artist requires greater talent in field of art than ordinary people’s one and to develop own talents is required investment like early education. In contrast, high schools just only provide general educations in a variety of areas. Moreover, many of high school students have no talent for arts and they tend to think that arts are just one of habits.
Another reason is that difference in the way go to college. Most of students in high school take the test like SAT for entering it. However, students who want to major in field of art put more importance on their portfolio or practical test than result of paper test. In this situation, For students whose entering tests are aimed at, art classes are wastes of time. Likewise, high school classes are burden to students who are preparing portfolio or practical test.
To sum up, arts and high school education are different in ways to achieve goal and feature. Therefore art class does not have to be mandatory in high school.