Klarinet Archive - Posting 000111.txt from 2006/04

From: "=?iso-8859-1?Q?sarah=20elbaz?=" <sarah@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Business aspects of music performance & education
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2006 13:44:01 -0400


> > From: Ormondtoby Montoya [mailto:o4rmondtoby@-----.net]
> >
> > <snip>The result
> > was that arts and physical education (of all types) have
> > continued to lose ground over the last 2-3 years because "No
> > Child Left Behind" is forcing schools to spend an increasing
> > amount of money on English &
> > Math.
>
> There have been a number of articles including a recent one in the NY Times
> detailing this and other lengths to which schools feel forced to go to try
> to meet Adequate Yearly Progress benchmarks. It will be worse starting next
> year - in Pennsylvania, at least, science will be added to English and Math
> in the testing regimen. The pendulum will eventually swing away from the
> nonsense of NCLB and, with luck, we will be left with curricula that are
> more rigorous in all content areas but within a balanced, broader framework
> than NCLB permits.
>
> Karl

The Israeli educational system is complitly different from the US. The children are at school until 13:00 from age 6-14l and then in high school, they would get maximum 7-8 hours, and will go home at 15:00. All the musical education as well as arts and sports is done at the afternoon in special music schools (there are about 700 schools of music in a country off 6 million citizens).

When children are going to school for half a day only , it gives much more space for home education, and the parents are responsible for the education of the children as much as school is.

It is possible that children have poor skills because their parents are not involved in their education any more. It is nice that the state is responsible ( "no child is left behind" ), but nothing would compare to the example that a child can get from his mother and father.
Sarah
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