Please Support Music Education

@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.

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.

Wow, you so perfectly show the problem with "all ____ matter" I should frame it.

1. Some one says "please support x"
2. But all letters matter, we should support all of them
3. But x is vulnerable
4. Well, the truth is we like x less than the rest of the alphabet.

And, we aren't on a site for all things, we are on a site for talking about how we play music, so this is hilarious.

Silk Road…. the cost cutting is stupid, short sighted, etc….but then just look at how our schools rate in science, math and we are so proud of active shooter drills….

Patreon is something we do including support to a studio that mentors young artists and last year trained 12 nascent recording engineers. 

@jond thanks for the pointer ;-) There are still good people here…