The Different Advocacy Groups That Are Trying To Keep Music Education In Schools

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In this struggling economy, cutbacks are being made in every part of our life. One of the areas where things have been reduced or eliminated in is our school districts. The first things to be cut out usually are the non-core classes such as art, music and PE. These are all important subjects that young children need in order to be totally stimulated for their minds and their bodies. The problem now happens that only the kids that can afford to take music lessons or to purchase a student violin or an electric violin will be able to experience the many benefits that learning how to play an instrument offers. Because of this, many groups across the nation have formed to try to help kids to have access to the arts or to try to bring back the extra classes to schools and why it is so important.

Learning how to read music and playing an instrument has been shown to help children academically later on. There have been studies to support this and state that kids who are involved in music and learn to play an instrument at a young age, will perform better in math than students that have have not had music lessons or training. This is why it is so imperative to have these taught to all children, not only the fortunate who can afford private lessons.

One example of a group that is advocating music education in schools is called AMC which stands for American Music Conference and is a national non-profit group that is spreading the word on the importance of music education. Many famous musicians have supported this particular group such as Nick Lachey, Run DMC and a lot of actors and actresses. This group has worked together with Teen people magazine to put on a huge artist of the year event acknowledging artists in the music industry and brings awareness to the fact that music education in schools in important.

In addition to several various bigger groups that are supported by different celebrities, many smaller grassroot advocacy groups have formed trying to support music in schools as well. One such group is called MusicFriends and was started by parents and a small community that wanted to support music in their local school district. They are supported by MENC which is The National Association for Music Education that started in the early 1900’s and encourages the importance of music education in schools.

This group states that music was mentioned as a core subject in the No child left behind education Act of 2002 and how important it is and should not be cut from school districts trying to save money.

Whether it is a big national group or a small group in your community fighting to maintain music in your schools, the same message is being advocated. Music education benefits students, especially the younger ones in elementary school and districts should consider it as vital as reading or math when considering budget cuts.

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