While some high schools offer art and music courses to their students, these courses are not always mandatory.  Some teachers, students and parents think that schools should emphasize traditional academic subjects like math and science, s those skills will help students more in the future when they join the workforce.  Others feels that requiring all high school students to take classes in music or the visual arts would teach equally valuable skills that the students may not learn otherwise, and would also help them do better in traditional academic subject areas.  In your opinion, should art or music classes be mandatory for all high school students?

mandatory        not mandatory

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The optimal decision here is to keep art and music elective: making it mandatory would cost valuable time, would not improve education, and will waste some money.

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