Michelle Harison, author of the 13 Treasures trilogy and the ever so scary Unrest shared the petition to save the arts in schools. I have done, and I’ve also written to my MP, and this is why we need a campaign to change the proposed new EBacc qualification.
I confess that I do sit in a slightly odd place when it comes to arts education because I did the creative subjects all the way through my degree, and then struggled to find work. Now part of it was *something else* that sat like an elephant in the corner of the room stopping me from doing well in interviews but I do think that probably too many people do go onto study the arts at a higher level. That said, I also think that children – at school – are forced to pass exams and specialise too early in an increasingly narrow set of academic disciplines and that is just not healthy. At school, children should carry on with the widest selection of subjects for as long as possible. Sorry, I’ve rambled, but as you might be able to tell, I’m a little bit passionate about this subject…
