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Re: Cutting school music programs in my district...

Author: jacoblikesmusic
Date: 2010-05-19 06:50

What it really comes down to is what the budget goes to. I'm sure they could squeeze in a band program if they wanted to. It's all about what the money goes into. Your goal is to make sure it goes into band and not something stupid...oh I actually have an interesting story about that.

A few days ago I was visiting my old high school to see my band director and some of my old teachers. Guess what I saw that was different...

1. I saw over 100 brand new computer monitors.

2. I saw an ELMO (new fancy thing like a video recorder attached to a video projector that works on regular paper which retails at around 750, after teacher discount maybe 500 at least) in every single classroom! Some teachers kept their ELMO in the closet!!! Seriously what happenned to good old projectors?

3. And as if the ELMO wasn't enough, I saw in every class a brand new projector mounted to the ceiling!!! Those were I can say at least 200-300 each.

So multiply that by the number of teachers (around 50) and bam we have 15000 on fancy projectors and 25000 on ELMOs. Plus another 20000 on computer monitors. Yet, America with all their fancy tech is lagging behind countries in education who have say a projecter per school! And that sum of 60000 dollars is for one school.

Maybe the American government needs to rethink their stimulus spendings....

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