Fine Arts Should Be Cut From Schools

Art programs can be very beneficial to students, allowing them to explore their creative interests that can be applied to a professional field of study. Programs in the category of Fine Arts and English define this area and include more specific areas such as dance, music, drama/ theatre, visual arts, and reading. These programs, as of late have been facing many cuts in their budgets, being considered less of a focus when it comes to the core curriculum needed in order to pass college. While there is a much more dramatic focus on this subject in high schools, it also affects large colleges as well. Personally, I believe that is absolutely outrageous that these programs are being cut from schools when they are incredibly important to all

It is often disputed that focuses is being drawn to other mathematical subjects because of how behind the United States appears to be compared to the rest of the world. For some universities to draw back from fine arts and English areas of study in order to focus on math and science programs only creates a larger problem that will only grow worse if it continues. Not only that, but many students also care deeply for these subjects and these drawbacks limit what areas students will be able to access in the future. Drawing from sources that properly explain why this is could create horrible repercussions, it is important that more focus is drawn back to the English and fine arts departments in universities.

My first source is titled “School Art Programs: Should They Be Saved?” by Valeriya Metla. This was written in an online news website called Law Street Media, which posts many articles about

In her article, “Liberal Arts Minus Liberal Arts Professors,” Flaherty detailed how many liberal arts institutions across the country are being inflicted with declining enrollments. This has led to a great number of these universities to cut programs, which begs the question of whether cutting programs for fine arts makes the university less of a center for liberal arts. As a prime example, she chooses to detail the happenings at Wartburg College in central Iowa. The college had recently been in a dispute about cutting programs and laying off a large number of their faculty. As word about cutting these programs began to circulate among students, it was found that many of them were incredibly upset about this notion and had started a petition in order to keep these programs running and prevent well-known faculty members from being laid off. This source goes into detail about Wartburg College in particular, but still remains heavily related to the topics presented in the first source. Both sources talk about what cutting these programs could mean for these courses. What makes both of these sources slightly different is how they choose to support their claims for protecting the programs. Flaherty chooses to draw examples from other universities that were facing similar issues in terms of cutting programs. Using a new example to draw from, Flaherty wrote, “Drury