It’s fashionable nowadays to suggest that our schools add stuff to their curricula.  Normally, these items are intended to makes 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.

Reinserting Music into Our Schools