Here is a brief CBS news interview on a Florida teacher at Miramar High School. Miramar was once the worst school in Florida. Now, many of its students are not only graduating from high school, but are enrolling in, and graduating from college. For the past 4 years the band director, Alvin Davis, has had a 100% graduation rate and enrollment in college. This is great news. However, as funding is being cut for K-12 schools often money for extracurricular activities is hit hard. Since we see that these programs are working it is important that they stick around.
Link to video:
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7404214n&tag=api
I often am disheartened by programs such as this being cut. What is the fun of being in school anymore? Sometimes it is programs like art, music, PE/athletics, etc. that actually keep students engaged in school. Well, maybe not so much PE, but for limiting it to once per week, for example, could be the very reason we are seeing childhood obesity rise! Cutting/reducing programs certainly does have a negative impact.
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