Musical Justification

[Great-Kazoo]

My guitar wants to kill your momma.
-- frank zappa

Call me Any vegetable.

I'm Jimmy Carl Black, The Indian of the group

Some people prefer cupcakes........

Very few people are aware how many different musicians have been in Zappa's ban over the years.

[sellersm]

Just don't eat that yellow snow.

[SAnd]

I'm going to go contrary to the original post request.

I will state that music has helped me through the rough times in my life. It has also made the good times all that much better. I could spend many inadequate words trying to describe how and why my life has helped and enhanced my life as the original poster requested. But...

I do not see music as an essential to a basic public school curriculum. Schools should be about facts and basic skills needed to function in our society. If there is enough extra money to fund beyond the essentials then music could be offered as an extra course. The public school system is graduating students that read poorly, can't do manage their own finances, and don't understand the way our country works. I am a strongly opposed to government run schools. I can support taxpayer funding of education though. Parents should be given a voucher to let them pick a school they want. The school they pick can have music as a part of the education or not, their choice.

My apologies to BigBear but I would prefer my tax money not to be directly spent on music.

I do realize how much music is in my life. They tried to ruin it by teaching me to "understand the language".

I believe that some of the best poetry can be found in the lyrics of songs.

I read this about 45 years ago when I was in high school. I copied it out of a Readers Digest.
One time a young man whose musical sense was limited to three years of intensive study at the Boston Conservatory, complained to the band master about the singing of the best stone mason in town. "He sings off key, the wrong notes and everything" the young man protested, "and that horrible voice, he bellows and hits notes no one else does--it's awful!"
"Watch him closely and reverently," the bandmaster told the student. "Don't pay to much attention to the sounds, for if you do you may miss the music. You don't get the wild ride to heaven on pretty sounds alone". composer Charles Ives telling about his father.

That's what music is to me, a "Wild Ride to Heaven"

[02ducky]

Thats crap, didn't the Taliban ban music?

What a shame.... Sorry Bigbear, I am at a loss for words with this one.

[Guylee]

Music is a huge part of my life. And music scholarships are just as prevalent as athletic ones. Just saying...if your kid sucks at sports at least he still has a chance with the electric triangle.

[Irving]

You need to come up with a way to pump people up about music so it generates money. Suggest an elective that teaches kids how to produce and market music, then it can be applied to academics in just one more way (business compared to math).

I just remembered you are in an elemantary environment. Dang.

[BigBear]

Neg, 6-12 grades, instrumental/vocal. I had several cool ideas (I thought) such as sound engineering or creating an "electronic band" (Since we just dumped x millions into macbooks and ipads) and etc.

SAnd, I understand your point brother, no offense taken. I just hope you feel the same way about athletics as well because if you use the "athletics teach team work, discipline, etc" argument, all I can say is "so does music, check out how competitive marching and DCI is." A music program is MUCH cheaper to help fund than most atheltic programs.

Also Irv, I've been thinking. I will try to get an afterschool rock band or something going next semester to hopefully garner more attention... We shall see what transpires.

[DSB OUTDOORS]

I love all kinds of music BB. Still waiting on your trumpet solo. You can PM me or send me a text. Still have my number right???

[BigBear]

Darnit, been so busy I forgot all about that. Send me a PM with your number and I'll send a vid tomorrow morning during my plan period.

[DSB OUTDOORS]

Darnit, been so busy I forgot all about that. Send me a PM with your number and I'll send a vid tomorrow morning during my plan period.

Thanks Brother!! P.M. in bound!