If only I knew…
“I have 5 frees!”
“I have 15 frees!”
“I have 17 frees!”
Well me, I have one. You may ask why my schedule is so full
and the simple answer to that is, I don’t have enough arts. No one ever warned
me by senior year you need to have taken at least three arts to graduate. If I
knew this was the case, you wouldn’t be reading my complaints on not having
enough frees right now.
I have taken journalism since freshman year. Journalism is
considered an elective even though it meets five times like a regular class. To
be honest, I have no passion or future in art. Why should I be required to take
an art class that I don’t care about when I can sign up for electives like
business and journalism which I do see myself doing in the future?
What confuses me the most is cooking. Cooking is a culinary
ART!
>Yes, the word art is in it.
>No, guidance does not accept it as an “art”.
So what definition of “art” must they be using?
I consider art to be a form of expression. When I write for
the newspaper: that is a form of expression, when I cook food in class: that is
another form of expression. I don’t need a camera, paintbrush, pencils and clay
to make art; I can make art in other ways.
Don’t get me wrong, I love art. I love looking at it,
appreciating it and being able to have different interpretations. I have
nothing against the art teachers or students that take art, but it isn’t for
everyone. We are students in a school that is fortunate enough to have so many
options of electives to take so why am I being forced to take classes I don’t
have a passion for?
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