Klarinet Archive - Posting 000366.txt from 2000/04

From: "Dee D. Hays" <deehays@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Student motivation
Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2000 17:40:36 -0400

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Charette" <charette@-----.org>
Subject: Re: [kl] Student motivation

> From: "Michael Byerly" <jjhugo@-----.com>
> > Perhaps my statement seemed a bit overgeneralized. I do have several
> > friends who are wonderful musicians but who lack exceptional talent in
> > academics. However, if you were to compare students in my school Wind
> > Ensemble to students chosen randomly from the rest of the student body,
> you
> > would find that the music students tend to take harder classes and
receive
> > better grades than students in that random draw. This would also apply
to
> > students in drama, choir, and orchestra, for example, and I believe a
> > similar trend would exist in any school. But in no way would I claim
that
> > ALL music students are academically talented.
>
> You're claiming a trend. I've heard anecdotal evidence, but I've never
seen
> any hard stats. Belief ain't truth. It _may_ be true, but if we use
> anecdotal evidence then I can easily show you just about anything.
>
> mark C.

I do have a clipping from a Decatur, IL newspapers that refers to studies
that have been done and show these results. Unfortunately there was no
information in the article to allow one to actually track down these
studies.

Dee Hays
Canton, SD

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