Why Music Education Matters

Why does Music Education Matter?

Music Education is important because it creates a fun creative open system that allows students to express themselves freely and allows them to create and achieve greatness.

Problem

The issue today is there are an enormous amount of budget cuts that eventually cause music programs to inevitably get cut. A loss in funding too often translates into less money to support elective courses in music. We have not done a good enough job communicating the value of music education for our children’s future and for our nation and too many school boards believe that cutting or eliminating music programs will ease budget restraints with little or no detrimental effect on students. The most deadly administrator technique is the budget game and most of the times administrators use the divide and conquer method, asking each teacher which cut in the department would cause the least damage this is a problem that has to get fixed NOW.

What does Music Education do for Students?

Music education does a multitude of things for students that are essential for them to know when they enter the real world.

What does Music Education do for Students?

What can we do?

There are a vast variate of things that can be done to help save the Music education department such as Fundraisers, Grants, and students and protests.

What can we do?

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Conclusion

To conclude, Music Education is important because it creates a fun creative open system that allows students to express themselves freely and allows them to create and achieve greatness. Music Education has a vast variety of benefits such as private benefits which consist of enriching the quality of children’s lives, promoting cultural awareness, creating social bonds, making schools better places to learn, and promoting pride of accomplishment. Or the Public benefits that consist of promoting responsibility, raising student achievement, developing self-discipline, developing greater tolerance, and providing constructive entertainment. Or some of the other benefits that consist of music causing the left side of the brain to be better developed with music (songs can help imprint information on young minds) and incorporates memory because even when performing with sheet music, student musicians are constantly using their memory to perform. You can inspire change within a learning community by learning the values of appreciating what you have and using what you can work with. By cherishing what you have you can think better by knowing and utilizing the things you have and using them to the best of your abilities. You can bring knowledge into the classroom to the extent of the student's understanding of what you are talking about. You can speak wisely and knowledgeable about anything but the students to a certain extent won't understand it fully unless they experience it first hand. The issue today is there are an enormous amount of budget cuts that eventually cause music programs to inevitably get cut. A loss in funding too often translates into less money to support elective courses in music. We have not done a good enough job communicating the value of music education for our children’s future and for our nation and too many school boards believe that cutting or eliminating music programs will ease budget restraints with little or no detrimental effect on students. The most deadly administrator technique is the budget game and most of the time administrators use the divide and conquer method, asking each teacher which cut in the department would cause the least damage this is a problem that has to get fixed NOW. The way to fix this is by using things such as Fundraisers, Grants, and students and protests. Fundraisers are a smart and effective way to tackle budget cuts because it allows the students and the teachers to support the program by selling or doing services that make a lot of money. Using grants is an extremely viable option because the grant of money allows for more funding for the music program. These grants can be Government, charitable, or corporate grants. Students and teachers can stand up to this issue by taking a stand and showing the district why music education matters. Students can also take on a role in promoting the music program by including concert dates on the morning announcements or establishing a greater social media presence for publicizing music events as well as getting musicians to run for student government where they can speak on behalf of the music program.

Citations

Pergola, Joseph. “Music Education in Crisis.” Rent or Shop Branded Musical Instruments, www.nemc.com/resources/articles/music-education-in-crisis_90.

“20 Important Benefits of Music In Our Schools.” NAfME, 25 Apr. 2018, nafme.org/20-important-benefits-of-music-in-our-schools/.

McKinstry, Aileen. “Why America Needs to Continue Funding Music Education in Public Schools.” IssueBriefforPublicAdvocacy,https://sites.psu.edu/mckinstryrcl/files/2017/04/IssueBriefforPublicAdvocacy-1f9jgt2.pdf.

“How to Secure Funding for Music Education for Public Schools - TC.” Music and Music Education Master of Arts Hybrid Summer, 17 Apr. 2020, musiconlinehybrid.tc.columbia.edu/articles/how-to-secure-funding-for-music-education-for-public-schools/.

Benham, John. “Defending Music Programs With Economic Analysis .” Save-Music, save-music.org/files/7614/1790/4673/1991_08_Instrumentalist-Defend_Economic_Analysis.pdf.