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     The topic I have been thinking about writing about is why it is important to continue to teach art and music in school. Music has been proven to make children more intelligent. Unlike other activities that may get in the way of school work and normal school classes, music classes are one activity that continue to help children become more intelligent. Music should be incorporated into the curriculum and teachers should encourage students to learn through music. I know that there is a time and place for music and arts in schools, but if school's don't have the money to provide a music class teachers should incorporate it into the classroom. Children thrive from music lessons. It doesn't matter the music lesson I  read a study once where they took four classrooms and placed all the children from one group into guitar class, group b into piano class, group c into voice lessons, and group d did not take any music lessons. Groups a, b, and c showed improvement in their tests scores, where as group d didn't show much improvement. I thought it was interesting that even singing improved the children's intelligence. Of course music will affect the child more at a young age, then say when that person is in college. That is why it is so important for the music to be taught in pre-k and elementary school. Arts are quickly being cut out of school's curriculums because of lack of funding. Schools and government believe that art and music isn't as necessary as the core of english, math, social studies, and science, but I disagree. I will need to look more into facts about how art class affects intelligence, but I'm sure kids who are more artsy are more intelligent than children who are not exposed to art. I know I need more information, and facts, but this is what I will hopefully be writing about because it's something I am passionate about. I know music class was always a favorite of mine, and I know how music has changed my life. I think arts should remain in school. This topic has increasingly become more problematic with all the school cuts and out horrible economy, but I don't think we should get rid of something so important to children's learning and intelligence.
     I don't really have a back-up topic, so if I can't write about this I will have to look into and research something else.