Lab #32 Leater to the editor

Dear Editor,

It takes more than just book learning to build a person. The "No Chil Left Behin" law
forgets that rule.
If you cut back on things that they think are "extra," like music and art classes, then you
then you might as well be teaching machines how to spit out answers.
The biggest thing you can teach someone is how to think in a creative way. That's how
you get new ideas, not just memorizing old ideas. Of course you have to know enough to
get by in the day-to-day world, but those things just help you make a living. Life is so
much more than your job and paycheck.
They are leaving children behind-children who want to sing,or paint, or dance, or write
poetry. And those children are just as important as the ones who want to do algebra and
chemistry.
Your head won't work without your heart and your heart won't work without your head.
Let kids learn with both.

Alyssa DiSantis