Proficiency exercise 2

To give more money to the arts school in Hammarö should be the most important election issue 2010!
Today all children in Hammarö commune are welcome to the arts school where they can learn how to play an instrument, how to draw, to dance, to act or to sing. The fact is that many children wants to go to arts school but because of the costs not all children can and therefore I think that this important question has to be discussed in the next election. Today the arts school gets a small contribute from the state but the biggest income comes from the parents who pays charge to the arts school. The arts school does not have their own instruments for the children to borrow because the instruments are so expensive to buy.
As I can see, there are three main reasons to why not all children can join the arts school:
• The first and the most important thing: The arts school costs money. Many parents cannot afford the charge that the arts school costs. This is especially difficult for the families with more than one child, even if there is some reduction of the charge when you have more than one child in arts school. This is a big expense for the families.
• Secondly the arts school have few teachers and this leads to long waiting periods, sometimes even two or three years if the children wants to play the most popular instruments.
• The third reason is that the arts school cannot supply the students with instruments which make the parents forced to pay for buying these instruments. This way also be a very high expend for the families, especially if the children plays instrument that are very expensive to buy.
This makes segregation between the children in our community and we will have a society that not all communal inhabitants have the assets to. The children will be split between the children who live in poor families and the children who live in rich families. I think that all children should have the same opportunities in life and the way the arts school is being financed today is not making this possible.
In poor families there are also important that the children have a comprehensive leisure where not the money is the leading issue. In many sports unions there are high costs to join and if the children are involved in some sport the parents way not have the money to support the arts school too. This is not fare and it doesn’t fit in a modern time to have a society like this.
The money that this reform should require is not so much but the winning is huge. To have children play and act is a lifelong investing in these children. There can never be a vast of money to invest in the future and our children are our future.
So, to sum up my statement, the arts school should be given money from the community taxes so that there could be an arts school for all children in Hammarö.