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Keep The Music
       Do you like music? I know I do, but in a school somewhere they are cutting the programs that educate the people that may soon be the ones to entertain us. This is happening in the Salem-Keizer School District. I learned this from the article, "Schools' music program cuts could cost talent, opportunities." I think this is wrong, because the district has a very prestigious music program winning sixty six championships in the past thirty three years. Two, if there is something in school that students love to do, why should it be taken out so the students can have another reason to not like school? Music programs can be the best way to keep a child interested in school, and I don't think they should be cut from these schools.
       "Salem schools are literally known all over the United States," said Chuck Bolton, the retired Portland band director. A band that gets heard from around the country doesn't deserve to get cut from the picture so easily.  They've won ten Grammies. The schools should want to cut anything but the music programs! They've even competed in international competitions.
       The district lost a lot of money somehow, and I understand the schools are short, but instead of cutting the program completely, cutting a little from all the programs could help. Appearantly the students like it if they're good enough to achieve what they've achieved, so why take away the things that make a person happy to show up for school, be in an extracurricular program, and most of all, make them the person the are now?