Why Music Education Is So Important To Our Children And Ways To Keep It In The Schools

In this difficult recession, cutbacks are being made in every part of our life. One of the areas where important elements 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 things that young children need in order to be completely stimulated for their minds and their bodies. The problem now happens that only the children that can afford to take music lessons or to purchase a student violin or an electric violin will be able to experience the several benefits that learning how to play an instrument offers. Because of this, several groups across the country have formed to try to help kids to have access to the arts or to try to bring back the arts to schools and why it is so important.

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Learning how to read music and playing a musical instrument has been shown to help kids in school to do well 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 mathemtically than students that have had no music lessons or training. This is why it is so imperative to have these taught to all children, not just the ones who can afford private lessons.

One example of a group that is supporting 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 have a big artist of the year event acknowledging artists in the music industry and brings awareness to how important music education in schools is.

In addition to several various bigger groups that are supported by various celebrities, several lesser known grassroot advocacy groups have come together trying to support music in schools too. One such group is called MusicFriends and was started by parents and a little 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 promotes the neccessity of music education in schools.

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

Whether it is a big national group or a little group in your community fighting to keep music in your schools, the same message is being promoted. Music education helps children, particularly the younger ones in elementary school and districts should consider it as important as reading or math when considering budget cuts.