Please Support Music Education

@jim5559 + 1

@bkeske + 1

@Bkeske I hope you aren’t trying to "all arts matter" the argument.

The main reason I made the point is that music education is often the first one to be cut in public schools and that every student deserves the chance. Science and history on the other hand enjoy considerably more support.

Secondly, we as audiophiles are consumers of music but may not necessarily stop to think about our role in it’s creation besides buying a streaming ubscription. If we love music we should stop and think about how we participate in the education and culture that creates it. This is, after all, not a site devoted to history or math or science in general but to music and how we get to hear it.

@erik_squires 

@Bkeske I hope you aren’t trying to "all arts matter" the argument.

Of course I am, because all of them do.

I had to fake playing my flute-a-phon in 3rd grade because I just didn’t get it, albeit I out-draw all my piers, and beyond. 

All that said, it didn’t, obviously, detract me from making music an important art form in my life. 

Not sure why you might think culturally music rises above the other arts and interests I mentioned. I also disagree with the belief all those other interests and/or arts are better funded than music. It was my innate artistic nature as a child that lead me to be interested in many of the arts, even the ones I was no good at at all, like music. Still cannot read, nor write, nor play any music, but am fascinated by it, enjoy it tremendously, and even more fascinated by composers of music. Not everyone can play or write music though, and not everyone can paint or draw, nor can everyone can design buildings (which I do now, that also includes science and math), but that doesn’t mean we cannot respect all of it. It all matters culturally.
 

@bkeske

And when people say "all ___ matter" they are missing the point, and fail to support anything. 

Not sure why you might think culturally music rises above the other arts and interests I mentioned.

I thought I made it clear. It doesn’t rise above, but it is the most vulnerable to budget cuts in public schools, even among any other art education. Again, this isn’t a history site or a math site, so you’d think that people on this site would be more conscientious about supporting music specifically, and boy have I been taught otherwise.

Gee, I dunno, it seems like at every high school football game there is a marching band made up with quite a few students who are obviously interested in music. I never saw a marching painting or poetry squad at half time. Nor would there ever be enough students with enough talent or interest to create one a fraction of its size.

If we are going to discuss ‘vulnerability’ in school, I think I would be more worried about the fundamentals today. Ya know, reading, writing, and arithmetic. That concerns me more than the arts.