Yes! Thank you!
This story was featured on Fox 13 tonight. The Pointe, an acclaimed dance studio in Lindon, Utah and home of Odyssey Dance Theater, offers a dance class for autistic and disabled kids and teens. Through this class, the kids learn social and behavior skills, coordination, muscle-brain function, and artistic expression despite their apparent limitations. Parents of the students commented on how much it has improved their kids' social skills, helped them feel accepted, and increased their ability to creatively express themselves.
So tell me, why are so many schools cutting the arts? Oh, because kids don't sit on their butts enough all day. Or maybe because kids need to just use their head more and leave the rest of their body out of it all. Oh, I know: all kids learn the same way and no kid needs kinesthetic learning. None of that makes sense. Most crucially, without the arts creativity is becoming stifled in education.
Please be an advocate for the arts in schools. It's not an elective or optional part of education. It's a necessity.
2 comments:
This is so cool. I am so glad you are so passionate about what you do. Did you hear that Hyrum may go to Hillcrest next year. I'll talk to you about it.
I'm stopping saying 'so' from this minute on...
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