Athletics And The Arts In Schools: An Analysis

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As a school system’s budget decreases, extracurricular activities are bound to get cut. Among these are are athletics and the arts. When choosing between the two, the solution is obvious, cut sports. With academic and psychological benefits, arts programs are noticeably more vital to a student’s life.
To start with, the arts help foster a student’s academic success. In “Pacific Standard”, Tom Jacobs wrote that, “Musically active adolescents obtain better school grades in languages.” (Jacobs, 1). To be fair, some may suggest that students in athletics tend to do better in mathematics courses. However, “...the degree of difference is not statistically significant.” (Jacobs, 1). Our languages play a key role in society, and cutting off

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