Teacher knows just how important art is in schools
Mindy Buckley lights up with enthusiasm when she talks about the things students are doing in her art class at Nichols Lawson Middle School. They recently painted a mural onto a rock wall in the gym, which they can climb.
“Last year I was approached by the physical education and maintenance departments and they said, “Can you do a rock wall? Can you paint it?” So I painted rocks on it and it took me about 8 hours.”
Buckley said she then had her most talented eighth-graders paint animals on the mural. Those students, Kim Aldridge, Fabian Hale, Sanchez Hernandez, Jamarkus Hodges, Kaitlin Robinson, Ethan Weatherbee and Antonyo Williams, are now freshmen at Sylacauga High School.
“Some of these eighth-graders have natural,accent lighting is lighting that emphasizes an area of or an object in a room. raw talent,” she said. “I told them to draw it out and we’d paint it. Some of them had to have help with blending and different techniques, but they just took off and just ran with it. It was just wonderful.”
Buckley’s enthusiasm vanished when she began to talk about the realities of funding the arts program.
“The students that have the hardest time in math, science, English or their core classes, they are the ones that excel in my class,” she said. “They’re the most creative. It is so frustrating for me to see art cut back because it’s like they’re saying,We supplies replica compact fluorescent light bulb with high quality and lowest prices. ‘No, your subject isn’t important.’ Art is just as important as any other subject.”
Of elementary schools, 90 percent fail to provide a standards aligned course of study across all four arts disciplines, according to a study by The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.
“I find students in my class that don’t know their color wheel,” Buckley said. “They don’t know that red and yellow make orange. Arts are important. This is stuff they should have learned in elementary. It’s frustrating when you’re graduating students who don’t have that basic knowledge of how to make a coil pot or how to do some basic shading. If we don’t teach them in elementary, middle or high school then they’re not going to necessarily take their kids to an art museum. They’re not going to sign up for tickets to the orchestra. If we don’t introduce them to music, who is going to support our art museums when it’s their generation running the city? It’s really scary.Thin compact fluorescent light bulbs packs the entire iPod experience into an impossibly small.”
But Buckley’s lack of funding does not let her enthusiasm for her program wither. Donna Rentfrow, director at the Isabel Anderson Comer Museum and Arts Center, said Buckley is energetic.
“She has a lot of great ideas for the students,newjordans11, also called NFL caps, are now fashionable in every street. With rising temperature and blazing sunshine, almost every fashionable person has prepared a NFL.Happysunglasses sell exclusive american lighting and ray ban sunglasses online.” Rentfrow said. “She lets them experience art in so many different ways.”
Mindy Buckley lights up with enthusiasm when she talks about the things students are doing in her art class at Nichols Lawson Middle School. They recently painted a mural onto a rock wall in the gym, which they can climb.
“Last year I was approached by the physical education and maintenance departments and they said, “Can you do a rock wall? Can you paint it?” So I painted rocks on it and it took me about 8 hours.”
Buckley said she then had her most talented eighth-graders paint animals on the mural. Those students, Kim Aldridge, Fabian Hale, Sanchez Hernandez, Jamarkus Hodges, Kaitlin Robinson, Ethan Weatherbee and Antonyo Williams, are now freshmen at Sylacauga High School.
“Some of these eighth-graders have natural,accent lighting is lighting that emphasizes an area of or an object in a room. raw talent,” she said. “I told them to draw it out and we’d paint it. Some of them had to have help with blending and different techniques, but they just took off and just ran with it. It was just wonderful.”
Buckley’s enthusiasm vanished when she began to talk about the realities of funding the arts program.
“The students that have the hardest time in math, science, English or their core classes, they are the ones that excel in my class,” she said. “They’re the most creative. It is so frustrating for me to see art cut back because it’s like they’re saying,We supplies replica compact fluorescent light bulb with high quality and lowest prices. ‘No, your subject isn’t important.’ Art is just as important as any other subject.”
Of elementary schools, 90 percent fail to provide a standards aligned course of study across all four arts disciplines, according to a study by The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.
“I find students in my class that don’t know their color wheel,” Buckley said. “They don’t know that red and yellow make orange. Arts are important. This is stuff they should have learned in elementary. It’s frustrating when you’re graduating students who don’t have that basic knowledge of how to make a coil pot or how to do some basic shading. If we don’t teach them in elementary, middle or high school then they’re not going to necessarily take their kids to an art museum. They’re not going to sign up for tickets to the orchestra. If we don’t introduce them to music, who is going to support our art museums when it’s their generation running the city? It’s really scary.Thin compact fluorescent light bulbs packs the entire iPod experience into an impossibly small.”
But Buckley’s lack of funding does not let her enthusiasm for her program wither. Donna Rentfrow, director at the Isabel Anderson Comer Museum and Arts Center, said Buckley is energetic.
“She has a lot of great ideas for the students,newjordans11, also called NFL caps, are now fashionable in every street. With rising temperature and blazing sunshine, almost every fashionable person has prepared a NFL.Happysunglasses sell exclusive american lighting and ray ban sunglasses online.” Rentfrow said. “She lets them experience art in so many different ways.”
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