Just in: Bavaria slashes music lessons
NewsThe southern German sdtate has announced plans to merge music lessons with other subjects in primary schools in order to shift resources to reading, writing and arithmetic.
They say no subject will be eliminated but art, music and design will be treated in future as a single subject.
There’s a huge political row blowing up over it.
Read here.
No wonder – for a country that understands itself as a ‘Kulturnation’, this is a serious matter. It seems that German children achieve quite badly along the whole range of subjects, so a shift is necessary to spend more time on the subjects which appear to have priority – and it is there where the problem lies: culture has no priority, according to the plans. Religion however will remain untouched, because we all know how ‘truly important’ religion is for the development of youth.
This appears to be the sad result –
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That is clinically insane: ms X ‘…..has emerged as a cultural icon of extraordinary influence’ followed by woke nonsense, it reads as a Monty Python satire.
Actually, John, religion can be important for the development of youth. Perhaps, though, the decision as to that importance, and the implementation of religious instruction, should be left to parents, rather than public schools. That, of course, would free up time for the restoration of music lessons….
Yes: “Give me a child until he is seven and I will give you the man”.
No thanks.
Tragic idea. For a country which has created so many fine musicians, this policy is akin to some of the worst policies of some of the U.S.A.’s most
Reactionary States. What will they do to ensure talent will be nurtured in anyMargaret area of the Arts, if there are not programs to develop the skills to make music and listen to it.
I suppose they have reasoned that since everything in the future will be supplied by A.I., that the real thing doesn’t matter any more.
My comment should be edited……..sorry!
I hope it’s obvious where!
Sounds familiar.
Welcome to the USA circa 1978 or so. That’s about when the public schools started cutting back on their art and music programs.
I absolutely love the stock photo used for this article! All those Bayern fans at the turnstiles, obviously celebrating cuts to music lessons!