More cutbacks = less musicians = better chance for my band to get famous :D

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I wish! All the money at my school goes to sports. :(

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Mine too. :( I'm not saying that sports aren't important, although I personally don't see the big deal with them... but the programs should at least get equal opportunities, because everyone's good at and likes different things.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

The problem is sports generates a ton of money for schools while music and the arts don't

by Anonymous 11 years ago

@Starlight_dragon I agree. And it sucks, because my school has a really really good music department that never gets recognized, yet football is a huge deal and does pretty bad every year.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Hey, guys. Listen. Hey. Hey, guys. I have an idea. SRSLY, LISTEN! Hey, everybody. Let's keep the music and the technology and dump sports!

by Anonymous 11 years ago

That's just as bad as keeping sports and dumping music and technology. Everyone should be able to have the opportunity to participate in music, technologies, sports, or academic clubs. If you want to be equal, then you have to support actual equality.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Sadly, just because it's been around a long time doesn't mean it'll be around forever.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Because music and art vanishing from school will make everyone lose their creative edge and need to create?

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Not immediately, but if art is taken out of schools, it sends a message that art isn't important. Over a number of years, it could be seen as a waste of time, and then lost.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

That's why it's not okay to sit back and say, "Art and music can be cut from schools, they aren't going anywhere." Cutting the arts from school is the first step towards burying them.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I see what you're saying, but I must say I disagree. While some people might just say "Oh, it's not important, I shouldn't bother." I know a lot of people (most of the artists I know, in fact) who do it for their own enjoyment, not because they think the public will think it's important. You have to keep in mind that artists tend to be inventors, and usually don't really pay mind to what the mainstream public looks at their art/music as. It's for them and their expression, not for the mass. I also understand that some might become a bit discouraged because they don't receive a lot of attention, but it doesn't make them quit usually. I'm not saying it's okay to sit back and let all these ridiculous cuts happen, but saying removing art/music from schools will eliminate it, when music and art was created and enjoyed before school was even imagined, is very out there.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

It was also supported before schools were created, meaning parents didn't try to suppress creativity in their kids. Forget about impressing the public; if kids' creativity is not nurtured, it won't grow to the point where they create despite what everyone else thinks - or at least for many of them it won't. A generation of kids that grows up hearing that art and music are a waste of time will treat it as such. They will try to redirect their children's attention away from art and music in turn. Our generation is not in danger; the next generation might not be in danger; I'm more worried about what the distant future could be. Maybe I'm wrong. I hope this never happens. But to me this post says cutting funding won't have an effect on music and art, and I don't think that's true.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

The generation before us tended to look down upon art and music, and now it's flourishing. How many art sites out there are booming, and how youtube is filled with aspiring music makers despite these cut backs? All the art colleges filled to the brim. The people who tend to look at and be at these and enjoy them are people who have experienced the cut backs but still know how to appreciate it. Fair enough if the generations after us are told it's just nothing important, that can be a spike in their head, but there's no way absolutely every artist is going to just stop or not try. The most passionate ones will prevail despite the circumstances unless something extremely drastic happens. Besides, the school's aren't saying "Music and art are not important", at least not directly, they're saying "We do not have enough money." Which plenty of kids this day and age understand just fine and usually don't take it personally or as an attack against something. I agree we don't know what will happen in the 'distant future', but I have to say I can't picture a world without some sort of art/music. Art and music comes with people, if there's people there will be art and music.

by Anonymous 11 years ago