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Music v. sports funding

Category: Anecdote
Issue(s) Addressed: Inherent value/intelligence
Music and overall budget

Attribution

Patricial Shehan Campbell, Claire Connell, and Amy Beegle (2007), "Adolescents' Expressed Meanings of Music in and out of School," Journal of Research in Music Education, 55(3), p. 231.

Item Text

A 17-year-old girl "considered financial constraints that loom large in school and district budgets, writing 'I think that it is unfair how just every sport gets money no matter what while the music department is always questioned.'"

Links

http://www.menc.org/resources/view/menc-journals

Submitter Information

  • Name: MENC Staff
  • Email: advocacy@menc.org

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