Klarinet Archive - Posting 000707.txt from 1998/04

From: SEAN TALBOT <talbotse12@-----.edu>
Subj: RE: Illinois Music Teachers
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 15:34:09 -0400

What I don't understand about this is the fact that Illinois
colleges don't recieve state money (at least to my understanding). What
say does the general assembly have in what majors there are. I do
know that you don't have to have a music degree to teach music in
Illinois. My home town of Fulton, Illinois hired a new band director
that had a teaching degree for science and recieved and a music minor
from some university. Thank goodness I graduated when I did because
the program crashed and burned in a year. Luckly things have been
changed since. Things have needed to change in Illinois for some time.
Why does IHSA (Illinois High School Association) run the music contests
when they specialize in athletics.......give that to IMEA (Illinois
Music Educators Association). It seems that there is more support and
funding and organization up here in Wisconsin than in my old
stomping grounds in the Northwest corner of Illinois. IMEA has got
to be the leader with MENC in changing things at the top and at
the bottom it seems. Sorry for the non-clarinet related topic

Sean Talbot