"Tax dollars should not be wasted on art, music or theater classes in high school. Public high school should be about training young people to enter the workforce. Period." In response to the quote, I highly disagree with the thought process behind the person who wrote this. I feel like this person didn't take into account the artistic career options and almost excluded these options from their vision of the "workforce". Not everyone is the same and has the same mindset for their ideal future, therefore, having a department of the arts in high school gives those a chance to express their creative talents. Regardless of where tax dollars go, public high schools still have a long way to go if they're suppose to be training young people to enter the workforce. Besides financial preparation, college is truly the place where younger people go to prepare for the workforce. Cutting the art departments funding would only do more harm than good for more creative dr