Music Education In Schools

There are many schools in the county who are losing their music education programs which in turn will harm the children in the education systems. Because of music in the education system it was a huge stress relief for me growing up. From the time I was little I have been around music and once I began playing music myself it has became a larger part of my life. What many schools systems do not realize that without music the world would be bleak. Music is a form of art and with it being a form of art it needs to be implemented into every age group. I know that they keep saying that there is no money in the budget for music but I feel as if that is nothing but bologna! If the school systems can afford to build mulitimillion dollar schools add on a 3rd gymnasium that costs 2.4 million dollars for a high school where there are less than 300 students there is something wrong with that picture. I know that as a student I do not have much say in the situation but what always discouraged me through high school was when my forced to do things that were against our traditions because of a new principal, or the county board found out that we had something that a different school didn't. The reason we had the things we did was because we didn't solely rely on the money from the board we were constantly fund raising for everything we had when we needed a new water fountain installed in the hall way what did we do? we fund raised and used ticket money from sporting events. When one of the teams at school needed something we didn't ask the school because we knew that they did not have a budget for sports we had to fund raise every cent we had. My softball team when we needed new uniforms we had to sell clothes with the high school on it. There were many people who did not realize this, for example the board of education. They are only 10 minutes away from my high school and they are letting it slip into nothingness. They voted to close my high school one that is nearly a hour away from my high school and two more that are 35 minutes away from my high school but yet they did not close down the high school that received the 2.4 million dollar gym. My high school was build over 30 years ago and it is still yet to be finished we were supposed to have gotten an auditorium but we never received it and that high school will be shut down in the next few years. The students who are being pushed into a new high school that they are going to build are going to have to ride the bus for an average time of 1 hour and 45 minutes. The board of education does not realize that by doing that they are breaking the state law that a high school student cannot be on the bus for more than a hour and 30 minutes.

I don't think I will ever understand their thinking on closing down schools and ripping the music programs out of school systems it just aggravates me to the point that I don't understand.