When most people attend a high school sporting event, or music performance, budgeting doesn't really come to mind. But the money it takes to run one of those events is huge, and one of the programs listed don't receive enough money to sit comfortably. In most schools, music programs are pushed to the back, while other programs receive the attention they need. Schools should increase funding for music programs because studying music helps students in an academic environment, the expenses behind running a band program are huge, and the arts allow students to express themselves in what is normally a conformative environment.
To better understand why school music programs deserve increased funding, one must consider the opposition. Many people …show more content…
Weinberg, a professor of Neurobiology and Behavior, "[...] Listening to music neurologically "primes" spatial-temporal thinking [...]" (Weinberg). Dr. Weinberg writes that just listening to music creates synapses in the brain, and causes an increased level of activity and thinking. The effects created by learning, studying and performing music are even greater. In a study done by Hurwitz, 1st grade students were taught melodic and rhythmic elements of music. They gave a control group no instruction, and then tested both groups on reading skills. The group who studied music "[...] exhibited significantly higher [...] scores [...]" (Weinberger). The students were all nearly the same in skills prior to testing, showing us that studying music early in education stimulates the development of the brain and its functions.
With all of the benefits to studying music, the budgeting is nowhere near what it should be. The expenses behind running a successful music program are high, and most of the money is self funded.
Furthermore, when kids are able to study the arts, it gives them an outing to express themselves in a typically mundane
To better understand why school music programs deserve increased funding, one must consider the opposition. Many people …show more content…
Weinberg, a professor of Neurobiology and Behavior, "[...] Listening to music neurologically "primes" spatial-temporal thinking [...]" (Weinberg). Dr. Weinberg writes that just listening to music creates synapses in the brain, and causes an increased level of activity and thinking. The effects created by learning, studying and performing music are even greater. In a study done by Hurwitz, 1st grade students were taught melodic and rhythmic elements of music. They gave a control group no instruction, and then tested both groups on reading skills. The group who studied music "[...] exhibited significantly higher [...] scores [...]" (Weinberger). The students were all nearly the same in skills prior to testing, showing us that studying music early in education stimulates the development of the brain and its functions.
With all of the benefits to studying music, the budgeting is nowhere near what it should be. The expenses behind running a successful music program are high, and most of the money is self funded.
Furthermore, when kids are able to study the arts, it gives them an outing to express themselves in a typically mundane