Save Our Kids Music 2010
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To Fulton County School Board Members,
We are truly surprised and disappointed in our county's school board consideration to eliminate instrumental music from elementary schools. The discipline gained through learning an instrument carries into all areas of study for kids. Many formal studies show that kids who play instruments are usually the better students in their classes. The better they become at playing an instrument, the higher their grades are in academic subjects, and the higher their scores are on standardized tests.
Learning an instrument requires coordination, discipline, ordering of thoughts, finding patterns, following directions, teamwork, and the necessity of learning another completely different language -- that of reading music. The skills required to learn an instrument and especially to play well take many years to acquire. The younger the students, the more quickly they will adapt to these requirements and the more years of schooling they will have to reap the benefits.
All the testing and schoolwork you could possibly do could not begin to replace the benefits kids get from learning to play an instrument and the social skills of playing together.
Please do your research and talk to people. If you take instrumental music out of the elementary schools there will be even more flight into the private schools that offer these opportunities. That would be a tragedy for our school system.
We ask that you reconsider this before the budget vote.
We are truly surprised and disappointed in our county's school board consideration to eliminate instrumental music from elementary schools. The discipline gained through learning an instrument carries into all areas of study for kids. Many formal studies show that kids who play instruments are usually the better students in their classes. The better they become at playing an instrument, the higher their grades are in academic subjects, and the higher their scores are on standardized tests.
Learning an instrument requires coordination, discipline, ordering of thoughts, finding patterns, following directions, teamwork, and the necessity of learning another completely different language -- that of reading music. The skills required to learn an instrument and especially to play well take many years to acquire. The younger the students, the more quickly they will adapt to these requirements and the more years of schooling they will have to reap the benefits.
All the testing and schoolwork you could possibly do could not begin to replace the benefits kids get from learning to play an instrument and the social skills of playing together.
Please do your research and talk to people. If you take instrumental music out of the elementary schools there will be even more flight into the private schools that offer these opportunities. That would be a tragedy for our school system.
We ask that you reconsider this before the budget vote.
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Joel Dallow
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- It has not even been 4 years since the last time the BOE made these cuts. Your constituents made it very clear to you last time that this was unacceptable! Don't do this again!
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Katha Stuart
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Lisa Gallagher
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brad methvin
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Shellie Carr
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- Maybe if you didn't do the CRCT testing on 1st graders you would be able to afford music education.
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Kris Mock
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Tammy Frascone
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David Frascone
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Kelley Smith
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Karen Turner
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- Please save this program! Our children need it!
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Eric Dallow
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Jason Li
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Mackenzie Bromstad
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Katherine (Katie) Keeney
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- Music programs increase test scores, improve property values and changes lives! We MUST keep our Outstanding Music Program!!!
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Mary Ellen Dallow
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- Again? Seriously?
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kim donaldson
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- music has meant so much to me - truely believe that it helps them to be better students
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Laurie Crossley
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Jim Crossley
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Jason LI (agen)
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Kiernan Simon
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Rachael Male
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John M. Stuart
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- This is something that parents, with kids participating, feel very strongly about.
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Lynn Cunningham
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paul
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Soyun Park
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Cynthia Steinberg
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Karen Hrsch
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Lara Bross
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Holly Thomson DiClaudio
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- Please save this very vital program!
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Jenny Turknett
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- what a shame you would consider eliminating music.
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Sheila Sillitto
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- Please don't cut our music programs. I love that Fulton county values the arts!
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Susan Moskowitz
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Anita Myer
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- Please save these wonderful programs for our children!!
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Helaine Benator
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Rebecca Anderson
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- Please do not cut this important program!
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M'Neil Fudge
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Leslie Gibson
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Grant K. Gibson
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Nancy Green
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Donna Burgett
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- Please don'tgive ourchildrena lesser education that we received.It is their right to have an all round education.
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Jeanne Mitchell
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Bill Mitchell
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Amy Kennedy
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Karen Anderson
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Erin Walker
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Susan Davidson
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Kara Byrd
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- save our music it is the background of our lives!
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Christopher Byrd
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Mary Boyle
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- No matter how much money schools do not have, this country cannot afford to have undereducated kids at any price.
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Donald Smith
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- MUSIC EDUCATION AT AN EARLY AGE IS A PROVEN CONTRIBUTOR TO HIGH ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE!!
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