NO MORE MUSIC
groundnews "The Olympia School District in Washington state is planning to cut music classes it feels promote “white supremacy culture” and “significant institutional violence.”
The district, which is facing an $11.5 million budget shortfall, in an effort to save approximately $537,000, and fight racism, voted last week to eliminate band and strings for fourth-graders.
During the meeting where the cuts were decided, School Board Director Scott Clifthorne conceded that research has proven music classes are “healthy for young minds,” but that they are disproportionately rolled out across the district’s elementary schools and as a result, students at some campuses are required to miss “core instruction” in order to attend the music classes, while other schools offer longer instrumental class time.
Clifthorne added, “We also know that there are other folks in the community that experience things like a tradition of excellence as exclusionary. We’re a school district that lives in and is entrenched in and is surrounded by white supremacy culture. And that’s a real thing.”
He added that there was nothing “intrinsically white supremacist” about string or instrumental music, but cautioned that it could contribute to the racist culture. “The ways in which it is and the ways in which all of our institutions — not just schools, but local government, state government, our churches, our neighborhoods — inculcate and allow white supremacy culture to continue to be propagated and caused significant institutional violence are things that we have to think about carefully as a community.”
A spokesperson for the district told The New York Post that the cuts only applied to music elective students who were able to opt-in for the lessons in addition to their general classes. According to the spokesperson, the district will not be cutting any secondary music offerings, general elementary music, or fifth-grade band and strings. "
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