I’m not sure what middle school this is, but a friend of mine’s posted this video online and it’s a-frickin-mazing. The tag line for the youtube video is “Remind me again why music shouldn’t be in public school?” It makes you think why the hell are budgets being cut from the creative departments in public schools when all a kid wants to do is sing and draw? If public schools are planning to cut a department, in my opinion try removing the math department department. I never liked math and guess what, today, I hardly apply math at work! Just give a kid a calculator or a fancy application for their iphone and bada-bing-bada-boom – math. Art, however, needs a completely different approach. Firstly, art needs practice – and within practice comes growth as an artist – and possibly in the near future superstardom – and further beyond the near future – immortality and complete control of the world.

The point. Let the future generations know how important art is and kick math’s butt out the sidelines where it belongs. You could tell my animosity against math by reading this entry. Well, I strongly believe if I had a music department in my middle school, I would’ve had the chance – at least the chance to hold the Guinness World Record of the “highest vocal note by a male” by singing a vocal note of C sharp in the 8th octave. At least.

Here’s a few sites if you want to get involved in “Saving the Arts” in your local schools:
//Americans fo the Arts
//VH1 Save the Music