On 9/17/2011 7:23 AM, Phil Daley wrote: > At 9/16/2011 11:56 PM, John Howell wrote: > > >By rights we should require good sightreading as > >a prerequisite before we accepted any student as > >a college music major, but if we actually did > >that we wouldn't have any voice majors at all > >(except the smart ones, many of whom started > >taking piano at around the age of 7!!). > > That's your opinion. > > Unfortunately, the education department doesn't agree with you. > > They also don't think art, history or science are important, either. > > All the testing in done in English and Math, so what do you think the > schools are doing? > > When the punishment is firing of all the staff for poor test scores, what > do you think they focus on? >
Spending their time polishing their resumes for a job in the private sector? ;-) -- David H. Bailey [email protected] _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
