I often wonder why is it many students, especially males, come into the school and expect not to learn art.Especially as they go up in higher forms, their output of creativity and skills decrease considerably. They instead focus on all the other "important" subject areas and not develop their skills or atleast try to appreciate it.They make art seem as the least important subject.
Does it stem from the home environment? Or is it only as a result of their peers? Also my fellow teachers, why is it that in Trinidad and Tobago you can never have the parents of the students motivating them to do their art assignments and commending them on their great job? At times these are the very same parents who would spend a lot of money to buy gifts, decorations and so for various activities and occasions, yet they are ashamed when their kids, esp the boys, make them....handcraftd items. Don’t the parents ever question their children and realise that their kids DO enjoy the art and it is relaxing and theraputic for them?… Just wondering....
