Answer: The arts are as important as academics, and they should be treated that way in school curriculum. This is what we believe and practice at New Mexico School for the Arts. While the positive impact of the arts on academic achievement is worthwhile in itself, it's also the tip of the iceberg when looking at the whole child. Learning art goes beyond creating more successful students. We believe that it creates more successful human beings.
They use positive and negative because again there is a skull in there which means death which could be kind of negative for some people but then again it could also mean that they’re happy that their loved ones are safe in the hands of God or whatever the religion is.