SOTA's Mission Statement

School of The Arts Mission Statement: OUR MISSION IS STUDENT SUCCESS... ACADEMIC, ARTISTIC, AND HUMANISTIC.

Is School of The Arts really fulfilling their mission statement? Our students are very successful when it comes to academics. Most of the teachers really care about their students and they want us to do good. Our academics at SOTA consists of math, english, science ,social studiesand a language. Languages that students can study are french, latin and spanish. With providing a form of language to study it can give students better help when it comes to them being able to apply for a job. A person that is able to speak more than one language is better qualified for the furture.
Our school helps students be successful artistically. We are an arts school. The majors provided are creative writing, dance, drama, theater technology, vocal and instrumental. These are majors that students choose from. Students that attend this school must part take in one of these classes. These art classes hold back many students from graduating. When it comes to SOTA art is a way of expessing ones self. Arts can help students open up and associate with people that like the same hobby as you.
I do not think that SOTA helps students be successful humanisticly. Humanistic is when aspects of human intrest and values are the center of life. If one were to spend a day at our school they will find this out. Yes, our school is not a school that has fights everyday, but students are not respectful to one another. Students think that other students are different for what their values are. SOTA staff does not always respect their students belifes or their values. Not all people have the same values so it can be difficult to accept others for what they believe. I think that SOTA has a long way to go in order to have success humanisticly. But there is no reason to think bad though if all the students would come together and wanted to see change in there school then we could most definatlly be a success in humanistic. If our school is not willing to change and accept their peers values then I think that we are going to need to go back to the drawing bord and think about our missions statement. The only way that we would be able to do this, is if our elders show us the right things to do. It wont hurt if we try. If we want this to be our missions statement then we need to look around and see what we are doing that is wrong and try to fix it. Nothing is impossible if we just believe in what we say and accept eachother for who we are.