According to Ashleigh Lutz “Not only do electives help students develop their skills and better understand themselves, but they also help students better understand the world around them.”The school board is taking away the computer science, cooking, and music electives. The reason is that there is a money shortage in the school board where they can't afford the electives.There are beneficial advantages associated with music.Students who take a music elective perform better in school than students who do not take the elective.In paragraph 12 of Middle School Music and Theater Students Get Better Grades, it says "Those who experienced arts electives in middle school went on to earn significantly higher GPAs and higher standardized math and reading …show more content…
Cooking and computer science are beneficial to the students because in cooking electives shows how students, teachers, and principals are seeing how cooking electives help students experience and support critical thinking, collaboration, and problem-solving skills and with computer science learning to code can open future opportunities, sharpen your mind, and be a lot of fun these electives help us in many other ways and are beneficial to students future.Yet if students participate in a music elective there have been studies that there are benefits in participating in a music program. Music students also tend to score higher on their SAT scores and also have higher graduation rates among the positives for students who play musical instruments.Therefore the school board should keep music because it prepares students for their future and helps them score higher on tests and one of the biggest test there is which would be the SAT scores and more students are graduating because of the music elective they took.There are many advantages associated with the music elective.Students who take a music elective perform better in school than rather people who don't take a music