Comments on: “Squeezing the arts out of kids” http://journal.starwidget.net/2007/04/12/squeezing-the-arts-out-of-kids/ First year teacher extraordinaire! Sat, 18 Jul 2009 02:33:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: dagman44 http://journal.starwidget.net/2007/04/12/squeezing-the-arts-out-of-kids/comment-page-1/#comment-34 dagman44 Thu, 26 Apr 2007 05:07:52 +0000 http://journal.starwidget.net/2007/04/12/squeezing-the-arts-out-of-kids/#comment-34 I want to thank you for posting this article. I used the link you gave for a posting on my blog. Although I am not an Educator, I have grown up close to the arts, lived a life in the Visual Arts, and had a strong family background in the Musical Trade. I have watched from the sidelines as the reduction in the Arts has been pushed by many who seem to have no concept of the importance of Human Expression. (unless it is in matters of wealth and greed.) I also enjoy some of your other posts and find your views to be very refreshing and a nice comfortable stop in my travels. Best wishes that you will find your "Dream job" in a short amount of time after your Graduation. I want to thank you for posting this article. I used the link you gave for a posting on my blog.

Although I am not an Educator, I have grown up close to the arts, lived a life in the Visual Arts, and had a strong family background in the Musical Trade.

I have watched from the sidelines as the reduction in the Arts has been pushed by many who seem to have no concept of the importance of Human Expression. (unless it is in matters of wealth and greed.)

I also enjoy some of your other posts and find your views to be very refreshing and a nice comfortable stop in my travels.

Best wishes that you will find your “Dream job” in a short amount of time after your Graduation.

]]> By: betmo http://journal.starwidget.net/2007/04/12/squeezing-the-arts-out-of-kids/comment-page-1/#comment-32 betmo Fri, 13 Apr 2007 18:03:16 +0000 http://journal.starwidget.net/2007/04/12/squeezing-the-arts-out-of-kids/#comment-32 they may have stopped to watch if it was a football game. it is usually the arts that get cut from school funding first. i really think it is a shame because whole swaths of the population will never experience the beauty of a mozart concerto or the prose of hemingway or the poetry of shakespeare. not really. many are taught these things glancingly in school but it isn't hip and it isn't cool to enjoy art. it is considered elitist and it seems that folks in this country are really striving for mediocrity these days. blend in and be 'normal.' i agree completely with what you are saying. that and mr. bell is indeed eye candy :) they may have stopped to watch if it was a football game. it is usually the arts that get cut from school funding first. i really think it is a shame because whole swaths of the population will never experience the beauty of a mozart concerto or the prose of hemingway or the poetry of shakespeare. not really. many are taught these things glancingly in school but it isn’t hip and it isn’t cool to enjoy art. it is considered elitist and it seems that folks in this country are really striving for mediocrity these days. blend in and be ‘normal.’ i agree completely with what you are saying. that and mr. bell is indeed eye candy :)

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