Posted on 04/25/2023 10:27:33 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
An Olympia School District board member cut music classes because they are examples of “white supremacy” culture that “caused significant institutional violence.”
The district is expecting an $11.5 million budget shortfall and needs to make budget cuts. Music courses for 4th and 5th graders were on the chopping block, leaving students and their parents angry and concerned. In the end, the district cut band and strings from 4th-grade classes for a savings of roughly $537,000. But the cuts were not considered solely over budgetary concerns.
School Board Director Scott Clifthorne told concerned parents that music courses aren’t offered equitably across the district. He said some schools provide the courses at times that would require some students to miss “core instruction,” whereas others don’t. Rather than address this reasonable concern, he launched into a monologue to claim music classes are examples of “white supremacy” culture.
“We also know that there are other folks in the community that experience things like a tradition of excellence as exclusionary. And I don’t think that there are just one or two or 10 or 20 people that think that. But that’s not unique to elementary instrumental music. We’re a school district that lives in … is entrenched in … is surrounded by white supremacy culture. And that’s a real thing,” Clifthorne said.
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A fourth grade band is more acoustic violence than institutional violence.
Voters get what they vote for.
Add rap “music” classses. Problem solved.
All these moronic self-hating pissants with local authority and big mouths just gotta get their fifteen seconds of Soros-induced fame.
I’m sorry for the kids, but the idiot parents elected these evil muthas.
If it doesn’t cause global warming it’s racist.
So were people like Chuck Barry, Dizzy Gillespie, Yo-yo Ma, Winton Marcellus, and the thousands of other famous music masters “of color” perpetuating “white supremacy” mastering their musical talents???
Yes, it is wrong to teach children how to play string, woodwind, brass and percussion instruments. Wrong for them to use their minds to simultaneously read music, keep time, and play challenging instruments. Can’t have that.
No just have them make simplistic rhymes to electronically created rhythms and pretend it’s the same thing.
And in Mexico, school districts are surrounded by Hispanic supremacy culture. And in Japan.....
We have long been told that classical music is racist—along with mathematics, swimming, calisthenics, weight management, drinking milk, and having Mike as a first name.
The thing is, this is white people doing this. No black person would even think of crap like this.
But, but, but . . . DeSantis talks too much about defending our culture.
ASK L L Cool J
There is trouble in River City
Rhythms, musical intervals, and harmonies are mathematically based, and we all know (thanks to the Left) that math is racist.
“A fourth grade band is more acoustic violence than institutional violence.”
LOL! Well said! I applaud kids learning a musical instrument, and I hope they stick with it and actually do learn it, because it benefits everyone. However, the “learning period” is generally painful to the casual listener, and sometimes even to the parents.
Of course overpaid “equity” staff, the myriad of administrative types and the drag shows won’t be cut
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