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In Reply to: RE: The classical music continuing struggle and the 800-pound gorilla in the room: posted by tinear on April 17, 2014 at 07:22:54
"music programs in public schools are now almost non-existent."
Bullshit.
Obviously, you don't have kids in school.
Post again when you know something about the topic.
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in which the parents donated the funding.
From your manner, I'm betting your school didn't have indoor plumbing and your musical "education" was on a banjo played on a front porch.
The data in this report show that during the five-year period covering the 1999/2000 academic school year through the 2003/2004 academic school year that:
During the period when the total California public school student population increased by 5.8%, the percentage of all California public school students involved in music education courses declined by 50%. This decline is the largest of any academic subject area.
Actual student participation in music declined by 46.5% representing a loss 512,366 students. This decline is the largest of any academic subject area by a factor of four. (Physical Education is second with a decline of 125,000 students representing a drop of5.2% of the total PE enrollment)
The number of music teachers declined by 26.7%. This represents an actual loss of 1,053 teachers.
"Participation in General Music courses (those courses designed to bring basic music knowledge and skills to young students) declined by 85.8% with the loss of 264,821 students. This represents over half of the total decline of participation in all Music Courses. This is followed by declines in Other Music Courses (- 48.5%, -103,783 students), Chorus (36.1%, -57,905 students), Band (-20.5%, -44,509 students), and Instrumental Lessons (-41.4%, -39,792 students).
When student participation declines are compared to other academic subjects, Music tops the list. The decline in music participation (-46.5%, -512,388 students) leads all other areas including Physical Education (-5.24%, -125,156), Health (-12%, -31,660), Humanities (-37.5%, -25,622), Safety (-9.13%, -6,983), and Computer Education (- 0.7%, -1,866). Art, Drama, Dance, Foreign Languages, Social Sciences, Science, Math and English all posted gains during the period."
californiamusicproject.com
It's not necessarily the case that music programs are being cut, but students are not participating as much because the increased requirements in math and science for graduation make it difficult or impossible for them to take music classes. This, along with other factors, was the case with both of my daughters who went/go to a school with strong programs in band, strings, and vocal music. It's much harder to get an exemption from PE here than it is to drop music--although marching band will get you out of it in the fall semesters.
dh
"almost nonexistent" may be overstating the case but it is certainly not uncommon for schools to not have music teachers. 20% of NYC schools have no teachers in any of the arts.
You might learn a thing or two about the topic yourself.
While music programs are still very common here is SE Michigan, school STRING and VOCAL programs are far less common. Lots of places it's band or nothing....after all, you can't have a choir or an orchestra march at the football games. Other parts of the country, especially more rural areas, it is not at all uncommon for districts to have pretty much zero music education. People's "global" perspectives tend to be dominated by local reality.
dh
Where just about every home has a piano and music in the schools is commonplace.
If he's in SE Michigan he can't be too far from Ann Arbor, which, thanks to the University of Michigan, has one of the richest musical environments of any place in the world. AND some football:-)
I'd move to Utah! ;-)
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