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Include more arts education
The arts are not important due to their career-making and wealth-building properties. Starving artists frequently come to mind when I consider all of the wonderful and often undiscovered talent that lives on your street and throughout your city.
Will painting and music yield your family the next Da Vinci, or will they have their solo debut on the stage of Carnegie Hall? I will most likely say no.
The same response can also be applied to every sports program throughout every middle and high school in our communities. No, your child will not gain a full ride to college, and chances are even (slimmer) they will take care of your long-term care needs via their NFL salary.
Horrible basket to have your eggs in.
However, the unequivocal and scientifically proven benefits of world-class arts education cannot be debated against! The arts open up wonder and interest in every subject … I've never met a well trained artist in either painting, music or writing who didn't have a strong understanding of the world around them.
Denying performing arts education in all of its genres is not only a disservice to the enrichment of your child's education but you are denying the future of untapped creative thinking!
We have to incorporate more arts education!
Ryan Mabry
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Pick up the trash, Crestview
Maybe we should revive Woodsy Owl and the “Give a Hoot, Don't Pollute” campaign because I have never lived in a place where so many lazy people find it acceptable to throw their trash on the ground.
Kaye Beck
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This article originally appeared on Crestview News Bulletin: HUBBUB: Readers' thoughts on arts education, littering