Both Gilyard's Essay on The Arts and Humnanities in Schools, and the NEA article on Arizona's Latino History Program brought up valid points about problems in the educational systems in the United States.   Throughout my experience in K-12 schooling, the classes that are the most inspiring to me such as art, drama, or music seem to be the first ones to get cut from the schedule when there is a lack of funding.  Personally I believe that there can be other more effective ways to cut spending rather than take away the classes that are anything other than basic science, history, math or English.  Although these classes are considered to be "more important" than humanities classes I strongly disagree.  For many students including myself it is hard to do well in a subject that doesn't have some sort of significance to personal interests, and by cutting art or music classes, school districts are taking away the place where many students excel the most and pushing them into an academic box of sorts that limits their posibility of finding their passion.  These articles are important in Unit 3 of this class because we are looking at what is most important in K-12 schooling in our opinions and preparing to write a paper that backs up our opinion.  In these articles we read about the loss of underestimated classes that are actually the most important in the long run, and this helps to gather more ideas and form an opinion on what we think is most important in educational systems and what can be changed.