It’s probably pretty stressful being a high school principal, for all kinds of reasons.
But Eric Alburtus, principal of Portage Central High School, spends a big chunk of his time worrying about the arts. He’s specifically worried about the kind of human beings our schools are producing, when kids must fulfill heavy requirements in math and science, yet they barely have a chance to study music, choir, theater, or the visual arts.
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Alburtus says arts classes give kids a chance to discover new worlds and different ways of thinking and creating.