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Author: Brenda
Date: 2002-12-10 22:11
This is unreal, especially since the Ontario curriculum, revised in 2000, requires certain standards in music education for each grade level. The Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra has begun using this curriculum as a basis for the student information packages sent out to classes that come for rehearsals, so that the orchestra becomes part of the class curriculum. In many places, music is being cut in spite of the scientific evidence of so much benefit for the child that spill over into other subjects like Math, etc. Governments know this, but they only give lip service to these values.
Today's CBC radio news stated the need to boost provincial funding for education - let's see if some of that replaces music programs.
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Author: ron b
Date: 2002-12-11 05:02
Canada, you are not alone in this. California ($30 million or so in the red), as well as most of the U.S., is not doing well. The reasons California is hurting is pretty obvious. Our leaders spent all the surplus while times were good, leaving no surplus against the present economic downturn. But knowing what's wrong doesn't help when you're broke. If no new taxes are levied, gigantic cuts in services are here and Health care and Education are running neck and neck on the hit list. No one needs much imagination to understand that in the public school system music, drama, and other arts programs will be the first ones tossed. Sweeping teacher and state workers layoffs are possible, drastic cuts in public services and highway maintenance (already as poor as it gets anywhere) is inevitable. It's a sad situation when music and other arts, no matter how beneficial studies have shown them to be, are always the first to be declared non-essential in a fiscal crisis.
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Author: ken
Date: 2002-12-13 19:46
It been a debilitating trend in North America for many years. Makes me wonder if there's a direct correlation between the creeping decline of orchestra concert goers/ticket sales, budget crisis, cutbacks and shut downs (especially in U.S.A.). And let's not forget about those adorable unions. v/r KEN
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Author: Eugene
Date: 2002-12-13 22:50
I agree with the idea of declining music education in schools and the effect on concert goers many of the kids nowadays don"t know enough about music to appreciate the work needed to play and form a world class orchrestra, there for these generations of concert goers are lost.In Calgary the school system for grade 7 students consists of two band classes a week and I think its been like that for a long time but in the 60-70s it was three or four days a week.Needless to say generations of potential revenue have been lost to the C.P.O which is one of the many reasons there in bad financial shape.
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