What You Can Do As a concerned parent, one of the best ways you can be assured that your schools are providing a quality education that includes music and the other arts is to work with local arts educators and other committed individuals to make certain your school system offers a comprehensive fine arts program taught by certified arts specialists. You can support your local music teachers and students through involvement in parent organizations and by attending concerts and other music activities in your district. The arts are not a frill. The arts are a response to our individuality and our nature, and help to shape our identity. They have a wonderful universality.
Art has the potential to unify.
It can speak in many languages without a translator. The arts do not discriminate. The arts can lift us all up. Perhaps we've all misunderstood the reason we learn music, and all the arts, in the first place. It is not only so a student can learn the clarinet, or another student can take an acting lesson.