▶ Your Answer :Some people think that students should not have art and music as mandatory, while others do not. Both side may have their own reasons to support their view. If I had to choose one, I would say that children should required to take art and music classes. There are several reasons as follow.
To begin with, when students have art and music classes, it can help students to improve their academic performance. Studying art and music enables them to relax and recharge their batteries, while studying mandatory subjects such as math and language all day along can be exhausting. When students are recharged, they are likely to have more energy to put into studying and being active. For example, my friend Susan was in middle school that had not non-academic subject, she tended to get distracted and acted on impulse. However, after entrancing a high school which have art and music classes, she shows a longer attention span and a stronger passion in her tasks. By having non- academic subjects , it helps her to get an attention and improve her academic performance. Without having art and music classes, she would fell behind at a high school.
In addition, when students take art and music as mandatory , it can contributes to an increase in their overall happiness. It gives them a chance to experience something difficult from what they would do in their usual routine by express themselves through music instruments or paintbrushes. New experience tends to prevent them from feeling bored in school. For example, when my sister was in high school, she often felt depressed thinking that her life became an exhausting routine.To survive in a competitive world, she spent whole day studying all academic subjects, hoping that she could do outdo others. Fortunately, she was able to deal with such pressure and stress by playing piano in music class. She could learn how to play the pion and expressed her emotion through music during the music class offered an obligatory course. If she had not had a music class , she would not have been able to escape her boring life.
To sum up, having students take art and music class promotes them to have better academic tasks and helps them to get rid of their stress. In this regard, I feel that all students should be required to study these subjects as par of the core curriculum. |