All Schools Should Make it a Requirement to be Able to Teach Arts and Music to Their Students

Clarification: Ok look I knew what the resolution stated however I also knew you stated this "It is therefore my belief that "Schools should make it a requirement to teach arts and music to their students". This is way different from your resolution. What this implies is that schools should make it a requirement to teach arts and music to their students... so I logically concluded that oh my opponent must be advocating that all students should take this course since it states it's required for teachers to teach these subjects to students. The statement was different from the resolution that states all schools should make it a requirement to be able to teach arts and music to their students. It would make more sense as well for the resolution to be something like ,"schools should be able to offer arts and music to students" cause the word required just made it confusing. The reason I didn't point this out is because if someone doesn't use the resolution right or starts saying something different like "Schools should make it a requirement to teach arts and music to their students" I go with it and point out that the opponent isn't going by his own resolution later to my own advantage. You noticed early. Moving on to argumentation Observation: The resolution states all schools should make it a requirement to teach arts and music to their students. I believe this is wrong because some schools mainly private/ religious schools maybe have other practices. Also there isn't a need an artistic musical skill in the market. There is a need for critical thinking, a need for math, a need for science, a need for computers. 1. Band/choir are not under threat and are fine as they are. Some schools are cutting funding in these areas however not much for band. Band is the most important out of these of course for the scholarships and opportunities band offers. As long as football continues to have the support it does then schools will have bands. It's a natural tradition that has been held for years. This area isn't under fire but rather art is. 2. I believe it would be more correct to put more focus on extra activities like Debate/ computer programming then art. The average debate team has a GPA of 3.75 and the average debater is in the top 10% of his or her class. Improvement in academic performance is common to all debate students regardless of prior academic achievements. (regardless of where you start whether its bottom of the class or top you will improve) (1), for example I am on the debate and basketball team for my school, the class president for my school currently participates in debate. Also 98.58% of debaters attend collage(1). Also debaters score higher on the SAT and ACT then their peers. I have a friend who had no intentions of going to collage partly because one in his family has been to a university. After participating in debate however he makes good grades and has went from a 2.0 GPA to a 3.1 GPA. Overall impact of this point: As we can conclude art has some creative and academic benefits and so does debate but debate develops a skill that is actually applicable everywhere particularly in business and law, critical thinking. Art and music is very limited in what they offer skill wise and job wise. In fact many videos like this one out the limited job oppurtnuties provided for such an area as liberal arts. Since collage is an investment highschool should support the fields that provide skills that can be used for degrees that offer the best invesments. Debate leads to creative thinking. It promotes problem solving and innovative thinking, also debate teaches students to synthesize complex bodies of information and to exercise creativity(1). computer programming= According to recent studies, teaching basic coding can increase problem solving skills. Golpin (2014) writes: being able to follow programming logic trains the mind to think in more analytical ways (2). Also unlike art there is a market for this. A lot of occupations demand computer skills and a lot of computer jobs are open. You will have job opportunities for coding/computer programming because we will use technology. The starting pay of anywhere from $59,000 to $112,000 reflects on this (4). Computer programming should be mandatory along with debate rather then art/music. Job security is an advantage enjoyed by most computer programmers. Computer technology advances at a fast rate, keeping the demand for computer programmers at a high level. If ever you lose your job as a computer programmer, chances are you won’t be without a job for long. In essence, as long as society relies on computing technology, there will be a demand for computer programmers (4). Conclusion: It simply makes more sense economically to make debate and compute programming mandatory rather then art/music. Sure creativity is a skill that's worth having but it's even more worth while to have a stable job and skills like critical thinking that can allow you to get raises and be more successful. 3. Rather then coercing all educational schools into requiring this it would be better to simply protect the current schools that have these activities and maybe encourage the creative side of art. I believe the answer is to not require every school to offer this but rather better protect the schools that currently have this or desire it. The government spends around 25 billion dollars on unused buildings. Not to mention 2.5 million dollars were used for a super bowl advertisement that no one saw(3). Not to mention 80 billion dollars is wasted on over crowding cost and alot of these prisoers are arrested for minor drug crimes. Allocating funding correctly alone could provide the funds needed to continue art in schools. Conclusion: I think debate should be pushed more rather then art and I don't think art should be required in all schools, Band is available in all schools anyway so I don't see how you pointed that as an issue. If a school has a football team most likely they have a band. Also overall art doesn't offer any future opportunities at least in America, there isn't a market for art jobs. Also in art class you are simply required to complete certain task to the best of your abilities. You don't develop any artistic skill from art you simply use what you have to complete a task. It's not intrinsic enough to be required on every educated infrastructure. Again there are private schools as well that may have their own way of doing things. They may offer different forms of education such as classical education. Sources 1. https://www.communicationacademy.com... 2. http://www.edutopia.org... 3. http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com... 4.http://smallbusiness.chron.com...