Please Support Music Education

True, but in US guns are far more important  .

To have music education is to enrich.  To deny it is to impoverish.

Well, as a visual artist, I could say the same about the visual arts. Or science, architecture, philosophy, literature, cinema, history, sports, or many other variety of things that enrich our culture.

Of course all should be supported. If you feel lead, support any/all of the above. 
 

@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.