Assumptions about Newark Arts HS

I had many assumptions before going to Newark Arts HS and was pleasantly surprised what I saw for the most part. My father is never happy with me traveling into Newark or other urban areas, but I did not and usually do not find Newark to be as dangerous as he makes it sound. He did spend a lot of time in Newark between attending UMDNJ and now teaching at UMDNJ, and he has had some experiences that cause him to worry about me.

I found the students to be very polite and open with us. I also expected this since Arts HS is an arts high school and usually any student dedicated enough to want to do arts and are accepted are mature and have a sense of professionalism because of their background in arts. During our orientation, there was a girl who played Beethoven’s Pathetique Sonata which is an extremely difficult piece for a high school student, but she played it beautifully even though she took some sections at a slower tempo which is expected.

Newark Arts HS is dedicated to making their students educated citizens through art which I think is a truly great way of making a student more aware of all aspects of their society. All high school students have the basics of becoming an educated citizens through the knowledge they gain through their core academic classes such as Math, English, Social Studies, and Science, but not all students learn in the field of the arts in depth enough to have an appreciation for the arts and how the arts affects their community. Arts have been apart of the most successful civilizations throughout history, and many developments came out of those civilizations even as far back as ancient Greece and Rome.