In elementary school, the only goals you had was to go and chase your friends around on the playground and to ace your recorder playing quizzes in music class. Imagine not even getting the opportunity to play the recorder in elementary school. Imagine not having your awkward choir or orchestra phase in middle school. Imagine not having a marching band at your high school football game. These possibilities are all becoming very real in today’s education system. Music programs are bring cut across the country to put funding towards things such as Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) programs. Without a music program in my school I would not be pursuing music as a career. One experience in particular has given me a testimony to preach when people talk about cutting music programs in schools. …show more content…
It was a ten-day long intensive dedicated to people who loved choir music. I took the opportunity, not quite knowing what would come of it, and I am now at East Carolina studying choir as my major. This camp made me realize that there is more to choir then just what is able to be taught in schools. After the ten days ended and I came back home and I had such high expectations for choir on the high school level. My expectations were not met. I realized that there are so many other students like myself, who love music, but are neglected in school because we do not get the resources that we need to be successful. I attended the camp every summer for the next 4 years and each time I came back home I always wanted to help fix our music program so that it is up to par with the rest of the