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http://kingsfordmusic.org/music_education_and_careers/reasons_for_music_education.htm

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Keeping music in schools By Dustin Fuqua Music should stay in schools cause it’s the factor that all life revolves around. Schools everyday is closing music programs for reasons that can and should be resolved. Money problems, doesn’t really protean to education, and just all around don’t like the fact that their kids won’t get classes they need. These people do not understand how much music can change in their student’s everyday life. It portrays to children starting school all the way up to their last breathes. Music improves dyslexia. It helps them keep a beat and helps them understand the rhythm. Some say that there medicine will help and they don’t need music but a large percentage of people don’t know that it even does. There is many students throughout the world that suffer from this disease. If the staff at their school only knew that just allowing a music program at their school would actually help them overcome and meet new friends and have a better understanding of life as well. "Art does not solve problems, but makes us aware of their existence,” sculptor Magdalena Abakanowicz once said. I would more than disagree with this statement. Think about a struggling time in your life. You always had that one song that would help you overcome that. Say a teen has a high percentage of suicides in the years. Their students suffer from depression; they could start playing much more upbeat or happy music with silly lyrics and more exciting ones to keep them going. Music has a major impact on the physiological viewpoint of the human mind. “More than 1.3 million elementary students fail today to get any music instruction — and the same is true for about 800,000 secondary school students. And nearly four million elementary school students do not get any visual arts instruction at school. This is very sad to read. They’re not getting the education that they could use in everyday life. Music is the songbird of a generation. They need to be introduced to this culture and heritage. It’s in all genres of music and life. If they never get introduced to this then there life will truly have no meaning. Think about how many children that is going on not learning factors that they will use in everyday life. The love and passion the human mind gets out of music is simply unimaginable. Think about it didn’t your parents listen to that one cd or that one tape all the way to town and back. And you would sing those songs in your head repeatedly. Then when you get older in your teens you express yourself through your type of generation. Now would you want your child/students to go through life not having that full experience? References

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Why Arts Education Is Crucial, and Who's Doing It Best
In-text: (Smith, 2014) Bibliography: Smith, F. (2014). //Why Arts Education Is Crucial, and Who's Doing It Best//. [online] Edutopia. Available at: http://www.edutopia.org/arts-music-curriculum-child-development [Accessed 14 May. 2014].