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Some educationalists argue that non-exam, arts-based subjects, such as music, drama, art and craft, should be compulsory in the secondary-school curriculum. They believe that activities such as these can improve overall academic performance. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

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It is thought that art-related
lessons
 are required in school for
students
 to enhance their learning
performance
. Personally, even though I truly support that non-exam
subjects
 have a variety ~of~ benefits for
students
, I do not think they are mandatory in school, which might cause more pressure but not a pleasure for
students
. On the one hand, having arts-related
subjects
 helps teenagers have more choices to build up their self-confidence. Formal education might not suit all
students
, some of them would
therefore
 struggle with their study path, and their confidence might be undermined by those failures, and
then
 eventually give up on learning.
However
, if schools provide more diverse
lessons
, those
students
 can have more opportunities to find some
subjects
 they have an interest in, which can motivate them to learn things of interest and cultivate their confidence.
Thus
, providing more non-exam
subjects
 could help them keep learning and
ends
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 up improving their learning
performance
.
On the other hand
, making these arts-based
lessons
 a necessary requirement for
students
 would not be a creative relaxation for
students
. Especially for those
students
 who are not interested in arts, these art classes might become a burden
for
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them
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because they might feel they do not have enough time to
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 those academic
subjects
.
In addition
, when these creative activities are an obligation,
students
 could get stressed and lose their enthusiasm for learning the arts. Ultimately, these non-exam
subjects
 increase children’s burden and pressure, causing them
lower
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performance
 in study. In conclusion, I believe many benefits can come with providing more creative
lessons
 to
students
,
however
, schools should give them more choices to encourage their
interests
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 in learning but not make these
lessons
 as enforcement, which might result in more issues for study
performance
.
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