Author: brycon
Date: 2020-08-07 21:42
It's just an incredibly frustrating set of circumstances, which highlights some glaring inadequacies with the American ethos, fed and state governments, education funding, health care, and so on.
For students entering into college this year, a gap year might be alluring; I've heard from more than a few rising college freshman who are pursuing this option. But over the last decade or so, many schools started relying on tuition payments to cover a larger percentage of their operating costs. If many students decide not to attend school because of Covid, then, it could be catastrophic to those schools not blessed with massive endowments. (This problem, of course, becomes all the more troubling if a vaccine doesn't materialize in the near future.)
But in some respects, it seems as though the pandemic is accelerating trends that were already present in the orchestra and higher education worlds. In education, for instance, the past decade has seen a noticeable shift away from the standard "conservatory" system of priorities--playing in orchestra, attending orchestra concerts, etc.--and a move toward technology, entrepreneurship, grant-writing, and contemporary or alternative chamber ensembles. For students and schools who find value in these things, the (hopefully!) temporary move to an online education might not be all bad.
Yeah, so my thoughts are the situation stinks and to stop from going crazy, I need to go stick my head and the sand and occupy my mind with the clarinet! Stay safe!
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