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    Music education in children is not important. Schools cannot afford to continue to teach so many extracurricular activities as music and art education. The government has been cutting funding to schools making it impossible to keep these classes readily available to children. Schools know that music helps improve brain function, but for a child to get through high school and college they must be able to understand the four main subjects of school: Language Arts, Science, Mathematics, and History.  Government funding needs to remain with the four main subjects of school in order to be beneficiary to the children.
     Technology is needed for the school systems. If they must take funding away from music and arts, that will be fine. Schools must provide technology to children or else that school will begin to lose students. The internet is beginning to play a huge part in education, and has progressively became a vital part of teaching children. Some students have homework that can only be completed online. Children must be provided with resources to use outside of school to do these activities, so they receive Ipads or laptops for the year. Parents will not continue to take their children to a school that doesn't meet every need for that child. Parents want the best for their kids, and if the school is not providing the fanciest of equipment parents may take them to a school that does offer that equipment. A school that continues to lose students, also continues to lose funding. Schools must pick and choose where their money will go.
      Some people purpose that schools cut funding from sports activities, but this will not solve anything. It would make matters worse, actually. Sports play a huge roll in bringing income to the school. Children must pay to play the sport, while other children pay to watch the sport. Football games sell many tickets and all of that money goes right into the schools funding. Sporting events also sell concessions, which provide major profits for the school. Sporting events even bring people from outside of the community to the school to spend money to watch their children play. This in turn brings more money to the school. An art program or music class would not bring in nearly as much profit as sports do. Instrument rentals take place outside of the school, which would keep the money away from the school. Schools don't typically offer instrument rentals. Then there is concert season. No one pays to attend their child's band or choir concert. The school wastes electricity and time hosting these concerts and no one pays to get in making no profit for the school.
     Music is good for the brain, but it is not good enough to keep in schools if funding isn't provided. Schools will continue to fund the four main subjects because those are needed in higher education. Technology will also continued to be funded because more and more schools are leaning on the internet and technology to teach the children their material. Also, music brings no income into the school. Music doesn't provide money like sports do. Music and Arts are too expensive and not needed in the school systems.