Public Schools

I feel that the underfunding of music in the public schools is detrimental to the survival of classical music in the world. Many school music programs fall every year to budget cuts, seemingly because many educators don't recognize that music is an immense part of our society and that it is just as important to the education of the nations children as math, science, and literature. Literature itself is an art form, no?

Perhaps the underfunding of the arts in public schools is just another side effect of the current deplorable state of our public school system. Public schools must be defended, as well as the appreciation of the arts which should be fostered within their walls.