What Will Schools Be Like In The Next Decade

What Will Schools Be Like In The Next Decade? It is more common nowadays to see how the performing art courses has depreciated in it’s importance to school districts and the students life. Now, though much has changed since Chromebook have become a requirement for 5th graders and the now current middle of 2017, the number of students enrolled in a music program has decreased. But how are music programs beneficial to schools and why should more courses be offered to students? Music courses availability has limited a student's ability of self expression, along finding more about themselves and expanding on their individuality. Students may benefit from learning ways to be confident in what they do and how they perform in school.

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In a recent studies, one source stated, “...a strong relationship between sustained involvement in instrumental music across middle school and high school …(Learning Liftoff)” Here, I agree that how a student performs in school is strongly correlated to the extracurricular course that the student take part in. In this scenario, students who are involved in a performing art have been shown to score higher than those who only take part in common core classes offered. Not to say that students who do have high test score and are not enrolled in a performing art class do not succeed well on test. But rather, those who do have a music background, grades in school, have shown to benefit from the course. Needless to say, the extracurricular class we choose , like band or orchestra, can and does influence one's grades achieved in

And so, why would a student want to learn music at all if they have a computer to go on instead? As a source stated, “advances in technology...is leading towards a fundamentally different approach in music pedagogy (SAGE journal).” Granted, though it is true that since students have been introduced to learning from computers in class. This has shown to influence the classes they choose and what parents would encourage their children to take. For instance, the number of students that are enrolled in a computer class are far greater than the number of students who are taking a music course. With that information, it’s clear that the interest of the student is geared towards technology rather than traditional interactive class. As one article reads, “It is because of the traditional Western idea of reason, not emotion, being the epitome of human functioning that music has been relegated to extra-curricular status in educational frameworks (SAGE journal).” On the one hand, I agree that music classes are extracurricular courses. But on the other hand, I still think that these music classes benefits the student's attitude towards school in comparison to a computer class. As the years progress, the importance of music classes should be