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Re: A Controversial Subject

Author: SunnyDaze
Date: 2021-11-07 17:29

Hi Michael,

I think that is very true here in the UK too. Our kids have national exams three or four times in primary school, with the results used to put the schools in a league table that is published in the newspapers. The schools get so stressed about it that many non-core subjects get squeezed out.

In my son's school, after he was in year 4 (age 8), all musical performance and teaching was dropped entirely, which seemed bonkers to me. They previously had weekly class recorder lessons and a once-a-year music assembly where kids could volunteer to perform on their instruments, but all that was cancelled.

When you take into account that nobody here goes to church either, that means that our kids are literally never seeing what a musical stave looks like. They don't know what musical notes look like, unless they come from a family where they are home schooled in it, or have private lessons.

A large part of why I'm on this forum is because I'm having to do all my son's music teaching at home, and he's a fast learner, so I'm having to work hard to keep ahead of him. I have no idea how other families manage if the parents don't have time.

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