Reinserting Music into Our Schools

It’s fashionable nowadays to suggest that our schools add stuff to their curricula.  Normally, these items are intended to make our young people more independent of a system that is rapidly deteriorating, and include things like growing one’s own food.

There’s no reason to object to this, except that, since our schools operate for a finite number of hours per year, for everything they add, they must remove something.

Given that a price must be paid for swapping subjects into and out of the curriculum, I think the guy here has the best possible deal: music, a discipline that is shown to make a smarter, less stressed, and more socially aware person.

Maybe if our kids were better, brighter people they’d be less likely to create a system that is deteriorating in the first place.