Who needs the arts?

The arts? Who says we need to include the arts in school systems. What a waste of money. All the money and time going to the arts should go towards teaching students real education like math, history, english. Those are what matter. Students need to understand how to write properly, understand Shakespeare and of course do a lot of multiplication and division. Those are the basic most important schools subjects that should get the most attention. Forget painting pears or peaches or learning how to mix colors, those things aren't important in today's society. 

Why should we spend so much money to teach kids to to sing or act or draw a bird? They say the arts foster creativity and creativity allows the kids to ask questions, collaborate with their peers and be more open-minded. Those things aren't going to get you a job at the top accounting firm. Those things aren't going to get you in the door at IBM working for the head of sales. You need to go to school to learn the principles of sales, the math behind accounting. Who cares if you are open minded, thats doesn't go on a resume. "Works well with others" or "open-minded" won't be under required skills on a job description. 

So lets invest money in what matters. The basics. The fundamentals. Math. English. History. Science. Those are the core subjects. Why do we need to add more classes for students? They have enough to worry about. We don't need to throw in more work to confuse them and let them loose focus on what is important. So cut the arts. Grow the math classes. Teach more algebra 1, algebra 2, pre-calculus, calculus, geometry. Those are what students need to be learning. That is how they will be successful.

This entire article is completely satirical and does not reflect my views