Teachers rally to protect school music programs
With looming cuts of up to $3 million as the Nanaimo-Ladysmith school district prepares its budget for 2010-11, efforts are being made to protect what’s left of a once-mighty music program that spawned such local legends as Diana Krall and Allison Crowe.
Norman Mould, president of the Coalition for Music Education in B.C., said that in times of fiscal restraint, school trustees have increasingly limited options to choose from to balance their budgets.
But he told the district’s decision-makers that cutting music programs further would be an “abrogation” of the central responsibility of those charged with delivering a “well-rounded” education. David Murchie, chairman of the district’s business committee, said while it’s still early in the budget process, he thinks it’s unlikely that music programs will take any significant cuts in 2010-11.
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