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To: Midlothian Council
We ask Midlothian Council to reverse its plans to restrict primary school music tuition to current pupils, thereby gradually eliminating music tuition from primary schools altogether. By removing music at the primary school level, we will dramatically reduce the numbers of young people who are able to pursue music at secondary school, university or college, and in later life. This represents both an unprecedented attack on the cultural richness of our local communities and a failure in our obligation to ensure that all of our young people have opportunities to express themselves through the most powerful of art forms.
As you are aware, Midlothian faces significant challenges with respect to the aspirations and destinations of its school leavers. Music and the arts offer possibilities for all children to be inspired in school, as well as alternative routes to success for many young people who may not engage on other academic levels. The arts are central to the core aims of the Curriculum for Excellence, and have proven benefits for individual confidence and self-esteem. If we deny these opportunities for our young people, we remove a crucial outlet for their participation in the community, potentially increasing the senses of alienation and exclusion that many young people already experience.
We feel that a removal of music tuition in primary schools will have a long term detrimental impact upon future generations, and that the financial and human costs of this will far outweigh the 48,000 per annum saving achieved in the short-term. Please do not further disenfranchise our young people. We ask Midlothian Council to work with its local schools, music teachers and parent councils to identify ways of maintaining music provision in primary schools.
Sincerely,
The undersigned.
We ask Midlothian Council to reverse its plans to restrict primary school music tuition to current pupils, thereby gradually eliminating music tuition from primary schools altogether. By removing music at the primary school level, we will dramatically reduce the numbers of young people who are able to pursue music at secondary school, university or college, and in later life. This represents both an unprecedented attack on the cultural richness of our local communities and a failure in our obligation to ensure that all of our young people have opportunities to express themselves through the most powerful of art forms.
As you are aware, Midlothian faces significant challenges with respect to the aspirations and destinations of its school leavers. Music and the arts offer possibilities for all children to be inspired in school, as well as alternative routes to success for many young people who may not engage on other academic levels. The arts are central to the core aims of the Curriculum for Excellence, and have proven benefits for individual confidence and self-esteem. If we deny these opportunities for our young people, we remove a crucial outlet for their participation in the community, potentially increasing the senses of alienation and exclusion that many young people already experience.
We feel that a removal of music tuition in primary schools will have a long term detrimental impact upon future generations, and that the financial and human costs of this will far outweigh the 48,000 per annum saving achieved in the short-term. Please do not further disenfranchise our young people. We ask Midlothian Council to work with its local schools, music teachers and parent councils to identify ways of maintaining music provision in primary schools.
Sincerely,
The undersigned.
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Mark McLauchlin
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- Ex Pupil, now professional musician
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Lorraine Bisson
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Laura Osburn
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Gillian McKeesick
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Kirsten Philp
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paul fisher
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NICOLA TIMSON
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- Music should be filling our Primary Schools and available to all children.
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ellie cairns
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R McKinney
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- Local resident, mum and musician.
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Jamie McKinney, age 7
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- Hawthornden Primary School pupil
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Claire McIlreavy
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Craig McKinney
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- BT Engineer
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Muriel Chamberlain
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Andrew Craib
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Ben Leitch
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Lysette Halliday
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Linden Webster
- Position
- PhD student, ex-pupil
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kerry murray
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Vicki Beveridge
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- Music is life, it builds confidence and has so mny benefits to these children they do not desrve to lose that pleasure
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Lydia Kerr
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Colin C. Fleming
- Comments
- music is the future!
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Ruth Craib
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- All music cuts have to be voted against to stop our society from becoming a cultureless wasteland.
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Scott Walker
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Rosaly Johnston
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janice gibson
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Ashley Douglas
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Lorraine Trainer
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Karen McLeod
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- I came up through the Instrumental Service in Midlothian and now my daughter is benefiting from it too. Music has such a powerful effect on a child's brain function and learning ability - to cut music tuition is so detrimental to their education.
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- Principal Teacher of Music
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James Chamberlain
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David Thornton
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- Tutor at Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama
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Isla Burton
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April Randall
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Mel Scrimgeour
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marie goodlad
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Alison McCormick
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Suzanne Dow
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Gillian Park
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Martin Meteyard
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June Savage
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- Music gives children not only enjoyment but helps them learn other things i.e. rhythum helps with times tables
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- parent of a child in Midlothian primary
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Susan macleod
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- When culture dies humanity dies with it
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- pianist
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[Prof] David Wilde
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- 'Music is not an entertainment: it is a language and a food for the soul'. Composer and teacher Richard Hall.
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- Pianist and composer; visiting Prof. for keyboard studies, Edinburgh Uni.
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Boyd
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LYNSEY PATERSON
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Mark Boyd
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Mary Macdonald
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Ian Campbell
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- Utter madness music is the one thing they should not touch
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- Euph. player Unison Kinneil band
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Jim LaFleur
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jane culross
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Helen Lessels
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Alan Lessels
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