At 9/18/2011 01:57 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: >Music as a discipline has been shown in studies to improve the >ability of students to reason and think. Thus, time spent on teaching >music properly could make the other teaching more efficient. > >We had plenty of time for music when I was a kid. I haven't noticed >that days are no longer 24 hours in length, though I don't know how >many hours kids are expected to be in the classroom any longer...
Thanks to Bush, the whole day is now spent studying for tests in English and Math. When you become a non-performing school (as most all will by 2014, due to unrealistic expectations), schools have no choice on how to decide what to teach. _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale