The President’s Turnaround ARTS Program Is Unfair!
Every child in every public school in America deserves access to the arts, and legitimate art classes, which include real credentialed art teachers!
In 2012, President Obama announced an Arts Education Plan called Turnaround ARTS. The program, which was to cost $14.7 million over three years, was to establish an intense art program for children in eight schools. Many fine artists came out to promote Turnaround ARTS and are apparently still working with the program.
The program seems to have expanded to 50 schools in particular states and cities and includes charter schools.
But it is unfair and certainly not lending itself to the premise of equality, to pick out a few schools where children will get the arts. Also, the reasoning behind Turnaround ARTS is concerning.
The reality is that the arts were ripped out of public schools during the No Child Left The President’s Turnaround ARTS Program Is Unfair!: