[atlantaprog] Re: WABE

> This makes me sick. I'm sure these "media activists" are also trying to
> convince their children's schools to cut out the music and art classes
> in order to try and bolster their kids' standardized test scores.<<
<<I don't see how you can make this leap... as I stated earlier, I come 
down firmly on the side of these "activists", yet I am strongly opposed 
to cutting out music and art classes, and I think standardized testing 
is one of the great evils in our public education system. I just don't 
see how you make this correlation.>>

I have to agree here though...its getting this way in SC now also..but when we 
lived in Columbia County in GA it was already bad...they are cutting all art 
type programs and classes back in public school..its awful and all they seem to 
care about is how high they score on their PACT test or IOWA test or any of 
those things!  
The teacher stops teaching anything else and in one or two weeks jams in 
everything a kid has to know for those tests then they get all ticked off if a 
student doesn't do well!  Its just not right...the teachers are now scrutinized 
for what scores the students get so the teachers are being ugly to the kids 
about it!  

ok..sorry...I"ll stop now...but if I could home school I would at this point in 
life!  I'm beginning to really hate public school for all its worth:(

PEACE
Beth


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Allen Welty-Green 
  To: atlantaprog@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 5:03 PM
  Subject: [atlantaprog] Re: WABE


  Me again! Some points I forgot to make...

  > This makes me sick. I'm sure these "media activists" are also trying to
  > convince their children's schools to cut out the music and art classes
  > in order to try and bolster their kids' standardized test scores.

  I don't see how you can make this leap... as I stated earlier, I come 
  down firmly on the side of these "activists", yet I am strongly opposed 
  to cutting out music and art classes, and I think standardized testing 
  is one of the great evils in our public education system. I just don't 
  see how you make this correlation.

  > The term "classical music" embraces 400 years of musical material from
  > all over the world, or at least the parts of the world that come under
  > the heading of "western culture". "Classical music" is not one style of
  > music. It's  hundreds.

  Not if you listen to WABE! Czarina Lois seems to only be aware of the 
  "classical" top-40 - I bet she doesn't make it through the day without 
  playing Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, etc. I'd bet WABE plays the 
  Bradenburgs almost as often as 92.9 plays Stairway to Heaven! 
  Occassionally she'll slip in an accessible Glass or Adams piece, or 
  something from a film soundtrack (she has a thing for John Williams I 
  think). If they truly embraced to diversity of so-called "classical" 
  music, I might think differently.

  AWG

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