This week is Arts In Education Week, when we celebrate the Arts being an integral, inseparable part of education. This is my story about why the Arts in schools matters.At seven years old I was a shy and quiet girl. I was in the second grade, and I had a teacher who encouraged me to write. There was a statewide contest for children’s stories and she thought I should enter something. So I stayed inside at recess and I wrote my story about a girl and a magic pumpkin. I was a big Charlie Brown f...