As school budgets shrink and levies fail, schools must make decisions about how to spend their money (I've told you all time and again that economics is the most important class you'll take), and often, the decision is made to cut the fine arts budget. VH1, educators, film-makers, musicians, and the like disagree with this decision making. There are many studies detailing the importance of music and the arts in schools: VH1 Save the Music details the importance of music, Grace Hwang Lynch discusses the importance of the arts in child development, and Education Week cites multiple studies showing the effects of the arts on students.
Without the arts, the films that we have watched would not be possible; there would be no actors, directors, cinematographers, composers. Some of these films focus directly on disappearing arts education - it is clearly evident at the beginning of School of Rock with the VH1 Save the Music advertisement. Think back to Here Comes the Boom; what drove Scott Voss to become an MMA fighter? Why is Mr. Holland's Opus interesting? Could Fame happen somewhere besides a school for the performing arts?
You need to use at least three hundred words and good writing conventions to discuss the importance of the arts in schools and how these films illustrate this.
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