(02-02-2018, 03:24 PM)TJBender Wrote:

(02-02-2018, 12:53 PM)HandsomeRob86 Wrote: Come on its California, I wouldn't be shocked if a teacher wearing only a rainbow sash and a 'build bridges' pin took a dump on a flag and called it art there. Hence why the arts are in chronic need of defunding. Any good art will be paid for on its own, none of it needs the governments endowments.

Well there's a leap of logic broader than the gap from here to the moon. "One teacher hurt my feelings, so let's defund the arts entirely."


I'm as strongly pro-STEM education as anyone, but cutting the arts out of the educational process is how you get a neo-Soviet nation.

The implication that a lack of art causes communism is pretty funny. Soviets had plenty of art, just like North Korea. It was all state sponsored too, all over the schools, everywhere you went: plays, television shows, paintings, pictures, museums. It teaches their history just how they want.

Never had an art teacher, and as someone whose parents are math teachers and is himself in a graduate program, I wouldn't describe myself as 'anti-education.' However, wasting resources for art no one would pay for (or even call art in most cases) is the epitome of stupidity. Funding the 'arts' should absolutely not be done.

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