Studies show that music students consistently rank very high academically. Music erases all age, racial, religious, cultural, and political boundaries. Students definitely benefit from keeping these centers open and actively engaged. Music learning is a discipline. According to Bloom's Taxonomy of Scaffolding Learning, the way music is learned provides an ideal pattern for learning any academic subject.
Colleges are increasingly interested in the well- rounded student.
Music is always and everywhere respected as a noteworthy achievement to add to a students' list of academic activities. Music is a kintetic activity and permits a form of expression and excellence as discussed in Howard Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences. Many students find a talent or form of expression they had not had the opportunity to express in their standard academic areas. This is a tremendous opportunity to build self-seteem, which is transferable both socially and acadmically. Cutting music programs from the school curriculum is more costly than supporting it fully.