The option to take art classes have been available in schools and/or mandatory to pass for decades. Now, whether they should be necessary or not to pass high school is being heavily debated. Should a class a year be required to pass high school, or should they be an option? Art classes should be required for each of the 4 years of high school because it improves grades, they increase social and creative skills, and they prepare kids to be problem-solving adults.
Many researchers agree that taking art classes in high school provides many benefits. Such as the following quote says, “Researchers suggest high-quality arts education helps improve test scores and reduce tardiness and truancy,” (Arts Education, CQR) taking an art class is beneficial. Tardiness and truancy are becoming more and more common, along with lower test scores. If more kids were required to take art classes, we could see the numbers of how often these events happen lower. These are not the only benefits art classes may provide. “Taking any kind of art class increases math, reading, and verbal skills, plus critical thinking. It can also increase motivation, concentration, confidence, and teamwork in students” (Edutopia). If
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"’Art does not solve problems, but makes us aware of their existence,’ sculptor Magdalena Abakanowicz has said. Arts education, on the other hand, does solve problems” (Edutopia). Art, in general, has enlightened us about many problems. And as this sculptor implies, taking art classes could solve issues, whether they are now or in the future of students. “Any category that falls under art teaches children that problems have many solutions and that questions have many answers” (Arts Education, MQR). We all know there are many problems in everyday life, but the awareness of how many solutions there are may not be as vibrant. People should be aware of how many solutions to a problem they