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Public Schools Should not Fund School Bands.

My opponet gurantees that band would be the first to go if the goverment cut funding to schools. Is this really true? There no evidences to support this claim. My opinion is if Federal government cut funding it gives to schools the first thing that would good would not be band but maybe a smaller extracurricular activity like the chess clubs. What I am trying to say is that many students participate in band. So why cut funding for something that many students seem to enjoy and help them mentally more than other extracurricular activity. Another reason schools should fund band is because it would good on your college application. Ofcourse academics is one of the most important things colleges look for when students are appling for college but colleges also look at what extracurricular activities ,like band, students participant in. Students that are involve in extracurricular activities shows colleges that they can make a worthy contribution toward something, maintain a long commentment, and shows that a student can manage their time and priorties [2]. My opponent miss understood the music help students smarter. My opponent said "They can listen to music in their free time." which he thought listening to music help improve people intelligents like playing music. What I meant in my first argurment that playing music like singing or playing an instrument improves your knowlege not just listening to it. Learning how to play music is quite difficult, you have to learn the different notes, technique, how to read time signiture, and etc. After learning quarter, whole, half, and eight notes 2nd and 3rd graders scored 100% higher than their classmates in fractions [1]. And in your arguement on "Acticile 1 Section 8 U.S. Constitution states what the Federal Government has the right to fund" which I could not find in the source you gave us. How schools funding band uncontititonal? [1]http://oakleafband.com... [2]http://www.collegeboard.com...