THE ARTS IS DISRESPECTED FROM BASIC SCHOOL GRADES – LEXIS BILL

On Wednesday Morning 18newspaper.com caught up with the morning show host on Hitz103.9fm – Louis Sakyiamah popularly known as Lexis Bill on the issue of what he thinks about the arts being regulated to the floor by government and cooperate bodies.

The morning show host who was looking bright that morning in his colorful yellow and black suit smiled a lot when the question was asked and said: ‘this question has one simple answer which is, the arts as an industry was or is still disrespected from our basic schools especially during SHS selection of courses and schools’.

 Lexis explained his answer more, ‘what is the grade a student will require to get admission into a science, business and General arts courses as compared to the Visual arts which is the pillar of many of our arts works in the country.’

18newspaper interviewer, Nana Yaw Wiredu, gave the answer as, one will require a grade of 6 -10 to get a science course, 6-12 to do business, for the arts (both visual & General) it mostly does not have a fixed grade or a cut off point as you can have 12 -24, 6-18 and still get a visual arts course.

Lexis said, so you see, that is the first major problem, right from our basic schools, students who are tagged to be brilliant are pushed to the wall to take up courses in the sciences and business were as the visual arts courses get those students who are not too brilliant or lazy according to our teachers. 

That should not be the case, the visual arts course which is one of the most difficult in our curriculum is tagged to be the loose course hence anybody with any grades can offer, and it is a huge mistake but it happening unfortunately.

So if you are in a country where by teachers don’t encourage students to take up the arts courses with better grades right from the basic school how do you expect those in the cooperate bodies and government who perhaps offered the sciences and business to take us serious because right from their basic education they were given the impression that the arts is for lazy and non brilliant students, Lexis stressed.

In his ending words, lexis said yes, the arts industry need verification from the government but ask yourself, how many of these government officials will even encourage their kids, cousins, nieces and nephews to take the arts course with let’s say aggregate 6? It will never happen, so  do you expect that that child after he  /she has grown with that knowledge will take the arts serious, he / she will not, so therefore the cancer grows and will eat us till we change that basic education rule.

18newspaper.com had a wonderful interview time with the day break hitz host inside his office at Hitz fm. We must say the voice of the player is the voice of the industry hence we will plead to teachers to encourage students with the arts talent to take up the arts course when they have the right grades.

Story: Nana Yaw Wiredu / www.18newspaper.com