America can not afford to outsource creativity. Most children are highly talented and creative who think they’re not because the thing they are good at school doesn’t value.
For years music education funding cuts in public schools have always been on the rise. School boards and superintendents often cited economic strain as a justification for schools cutting music programs. School leaders and legislators need to stop throwing around words like “innovative” and “creative” and instead begin to model that behavior themselves; through creative scheduling and divorce from standardizing our kids in order to measure their growth.