For thousands of young people from low income families, access to a broad and balanced curriculum is increasingly limited – especially for music.
For thousands of young people from low income families, access to a broad and balanced curriculum is increasingly limited – especially for music.
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Music is one of the main things bringing people together in this country, always has been, no surprise the government want rid of this.
This goes for a lot of the creative arts though, it allows people to use their imaginations, think for themselves and expand horizons. The powers that be don’t want this, especially within poorer sectors of society, they just want worker drones to mindlessly obey and help line their pockets.
Music isn’t a vital subject. Considering they amount of people supposedly struggling we should teach personal finance so they can manage their money better.
There’s a school not too far from where I teach. It’s a mainstream school but has specialist music college status.
They had to cut their a level music provision last year.
It’s crazy how little attention music gets in schools considering music made in the UK is celebrated and loved the world over, and has always been one the UKs major exports, last year alone they were worth over half a billion pounds. You can be on holiday in any country in the world, eating exotic cuisine served on Greek plates with fine French silverware on high quality Swiss tables, but there’s a pretty high chance that the music the restaurant is playing on the speakers will be from the UK. Also the computer game industry, which is one of the most lucrative industries in the world currently, relies heavily on artists and musicians for their success.
So tragic. If they continue to cut school budgets expect to see this trend continue. I’m a Science but I want kids to be able to experience as many different subjects as possible. Makes life more enjoyable. We are not factories to provide the system with workers. We are educators preparing our students with knowledge and frameworks to appreciate and navigate the world.
Just before the pandemic, an amazing group of musicians and music teachers in my town came together to do something about this issue.
They set up Music For The Many – a charity that provides free musical instruments and free music lessons to all primary schools in the town.
It shouldn’t need to exist, but we are incredibly thankful that it does.
https://music4themany.com/
Tbf I feel there’s minimal interest in music. I’ve worked with and briefly taught gen z people and they were all into rap or pop music and had zero care or interest in to how music is made. The only exception was one guy a few years younger but he came from money and his father was already well known in the biz so he was able to “test” being a famous musician with a brief band which got to play for thousands.. it really opened my eyes as know one really knew any if them but it was manufactured and all paid for… they ended up getting a large following before disbanding.. all of which happened in 1 year.