Klarinet Archive - Posting 000627.txt from 2001/05

From: deehays <deehays@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] School Board
Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 00:19:04 -0400

I'll expand a bit more on this when I get home tonight
but I should have mentioned that I meant for Music Education
to be a mandatory course for *ALL* students. Band and chorus
members would NOT be excused from the Music Education class.

I'll explain my reasons next time I post but must go for now.

Dee Hays
Michigan

> At 10:21 PM 05/24/2001 -0400, you wrote:
> >I just wanted to throw some thoughts out on this subject too.
> >
> >1. Music should be part of the educational curricula. But by this I mean
> >theory, music history, music development, music appreciation
> >etc. Students could even do a little simple composing and so on.
> >2. Band and chorus should be extracurricular activities for two reasons.
> >a) There isn't time to teach music in either one, what is being taught is
> >performance not music per se. b) If you are in band or chorus, there are
> >weekend and evening commitments that students in other classes do not have
> >to contend with.
>
> I have some very serious philosophical differences with 2. a) and b)
> above. It assumes much. Band and Chorus are in the curriculum because
> they teach music literacy. It is the teachers who are choosing to to teach
> performance ONLY and involving the extra-curricular activities that are
> causing non-music professionals and non-music teachers to assume the a

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