Klarinet Archive - Posting 000113.txt from 2006/04

From: o4rmondtoby@-----.net (Ormondtoby Montoya)
Subj: Re: [kl] Business aspects of music performance & education
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2006 13:56:40 -0400

Sarah wrote:

> I am surprised that you call music a
> non-survival skill - for many musicians it is a
> matter of survival.

... witness the fact that many musicians will leave their home (eg: New
Orleans) if the pay there is insufficient... rather than staying and
changing their job instead.

(which, come to think of it, is probably why I included both school and
pay in the subject line of this thread.... they *are* related)

But more to the point: just as no reed works for everyone, no life style
or any other resource works for everyone either, and different people
*do* need and *do* survive in different ways.

My complaint is not that NCLB demands certain math and English skills.
Rather, it is that NCLB is proving to demand these skills _to the
exclusion_ of other skills which also can allow a child to survive and
feel satisfied.

As a parent of a handicapped child, I have *very* bitter feelings about
this; but since this isn't Callahan's, I won't go into it in detail
here.

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