Don't Cut Out the Fun in Education

            School is boring for many students; you sit around and listen to a lecture for six hours a day. Students look forward to after school activities or their electives such as music or a language. When you cut out the extra curriculum activities due to budget cuts you are cutting out the fun in school.

            Music and art are one of the first programs to get cut if the school is having funding issues. The problem is students use these programs as a way to express themselves. They could use it as an escape. If you take this away, students will not have that opportunity or option. That could destroy a child emotionally. 

            According to the survey conducted in January-February 2015, “Seventy-seven percent of teachers and 64 percent of parents agree that music and arts education are ‘extremely important’ or “very important. Eighty-seven percent of teachers and 81 percent of parents believe children should have a chance to learn to play musical instruments as early as elementary school. Sixty-three percent of teachers and 57 percent of parents believe music education should be a required subject in middle school” (nammfoundation.org). The teachers and parents know how important extra activities are for the children.

Sports are after school activities, by having sports at the school that is around two hours a day that your child is not getting into trouble. Sports are helpful for parents because the children have something to do if the parent is still at work instead of the child being home by themselves. Sports are like having a part time job, it is time consuming and hard work but it teaches children so much. They learn time management skills as well as being responsible and reliable and respectful. Sports are also beneficial in schools because it gives the child a reason to care about their grades because most schools say you have to have a certain grade point average in order to play. It causes as a motivation to help you want to succeed in school. 

The the question is why would you cut activities that children use to succeed. The students use these resources to further them selves in there education such as college.  Instead of cutting the programs we should be finding different alternatives to fund the programs. The students could fund-raise and that would also teach the students that they have to work hard for what they want. Extra curriculum activities and electives are all learning opportunities and great resources for students. We shouldn't be taking away from the child's learning but help it to grow and develop. Help them to enjoy and want to come to school not cut out the fun.