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<blockquote data-quote="ECoastFrog" data-source="post: 2951291" data-attributes="member: 71822"><p>Wow. Are you aware that TX has some of the VERY BEST music education, K-12, in all the US? This is largely due to UIL and its standards for performance. (We start them in grades K-6 so they are already fairly well-trained by grade 7, when UIL eligibility begins.)</p><p></p><p>Why does UIL sponsor music? I'd like to say it's because of some deep commitment to aesthetics, but that was not my experience as a former TX high school choir director. It's about football. Yes, football. Gotta have the marching band. But if kids get to play band instruments, why can't they have the option of singing or playing strings? Thus evolved the excellence of music ed in TX public schools.</p><p></p><p>When I was teaching, I could could still argue, 'But why does the band get that?" and it would usually work to get 'it' for the choir, as well. And of course, the competitiveness of UIL is not a singular motivation TX music educators... my colleagues were largely motivated by the aesthetic value for the kids.</p><p></p><p>Who trains those teachers? The vast majority had at least some training when they were K-12, and then they got a degree (or 2, or 3.) Were those degrees a guarantee of being a good teacher? Of course not. There are highly trained, but bad teachers in the world. But the degree is (and should be) required to teach K-12.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ECoastFrog, post: 2951291, member: 71822"] Wow. Are you aware that TX has some of the VERY BEST music education, K-12, in all the US? This is largely due to UIL and its standards for performance. (We start them in grades K-6 so they are already fairly well-trained by grade 7, when UIL eligibility begins.) Why does UIL sponsor music? I'd like to say it's because of some deep commitment to aesthetics, but that was not my experience as a former TX high school choir director. It's about football. Yes, football. Gotta have the marching band. But if kids get to play band instruments, why can't they have the option of singing or playing strings? Thus evolved the excellence of music ed in TX public schools. When I was teaching, I could could still argue, 'But why does the band get that?" and it would usually work to get 'it' for the choir, as well. And of course, the competitiveness of UIL is not a singular motivation TX music educators... my colleagues were largely motivated by the aesthetic value for the kids. Who trains those teachers? The vast majority had at least some training when they were K-12, and then they got a degree (or 2, or 3.) Were those degrees a guarantee of being a good teacher? Of course not. There are highly trained, but bad teachers in the world. But the degree is (and should be) required to teach K-12. [/QUOTE]
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