Cut "Extra" Curricular Activities?

Lights blaring, eyes staring, a football is passed, trumpets blazing, a football game gives proof to warn that, "extra" curricular activities are important for the mind, the body, and pride. Art, band, sports, and home economics are equally as important as math, history, science, or language arts. Schools need not take only knowledge and money into consideration, because pride, confidence, and fun are all important to how students learn. Yes, money is tight now, but money should not be the only thing taken into consideration here, in this situation, it's not the only thing that matters. So, the stance I take on belatedly cutting important activities, I feel that excommunicating such courses would be ruthlessly naïve, and they shouldn't be discarded.

Sports are important part of any school. They raise money, student moral, it keeps students out of trouble, encourages good grades, and best of all: they have fun! Most schools have fees induced for the sporting events for school necessities. And many schools have concession stands that sell food, candy, drinks, and snacks which also bring in money for the school. Students usually stand behind their school teams and if their team wins, the school will be more upbeat and are encouraged to learn. After-school sports keep kids who otherwise be on the streets getting into trouble or getting into bad situations. In order to take part in sports, students must have average or above average grades, otherwise, well, they couldn't have fun. Sports are fun, plain and simple, humans would go completely mad without them.

Art is one of the Big Three: Art, Science, Language. To cut art from schools would be to eliminate the Judicial Branch of the American government or to have only the Son and the Holy Spirit, no Father. Art is the gateway to so many jobs and careers, most of us will not become scientists, historians, or mathematicians. Music is the most influential medium in our lives. To even think of depriving children the right to play music in a marching band is appalling. Art is what makes us humans, along with language, math, and science. So, you think of not teaching kids one of the things that define us is wrong.

In an effort to save money in other ways, I think that there certain we do without. Text books, because of the onset of the Information Age which ushered in the computer revolution, text books have already been digitized and uploaded to computers. School computers are full of programs that are ever at all used by the students, which could therefor be restricted to the adults' computers. And in an effort to move on and evolve, desktop computers are now not needed, for laptops can do all desktops can do with the addition their portable. With text books now being able to be uploaded to the internet, or onto CD's, text books will become obsolete. And with the advent of email, assignments could be sent via email, and the new CPS system could be utilized for quizzes. Notes, and notebooks, and maybe workbooks will still be in use.

It makes some sense to round this discussion with one last reason not to cut these important subjects. If "extra" curricular activities were cut, some students who might have gotten a scholarship for sports, band, or an art class, wouldn't get that opportunity. To cut the aforementioned courses is to say no to artists, athletes, and musicians. Which is something we cannot do. I believe that to cut such class would be hopelessly naïve and childish. I will remain steadfast for my stance on this issue, as well as many others. You can have nothing without language, not questions without imagination, no science without art, no life without art, "extra" curricular activities, aren't "extra."