My opponent said band should be cut out and students can...
Public Schools Should not Fund School Bands.
My opponent said funding band is unconstitutional and said the Federal Government has no right funding band. He got this idea from the Article 1 Section 8 which he said whatever is not listed in the Article is not allowed to be funded. In Article 1 Section 8 (http://www.usconstitution.net......) states what Power the Congress can do. The Federal Goverment does not have the power to fund schools but the State goverment those. Schools are not directly funded by the Federal goverment, the money is given to the States and the States distribute the money umong the distrincts[1]. If it was uncontitutional to fund band, then we would not be having this debate right now. My opponent said band should be cut out and students can just play at home. The consiqusies with playing music on your own time and not having band at school is the fact the student does not have a band to play with. Playing in with a band helps students music skills in ways playing by your self or with a few friends could not do. While playing in the band students have to listen to each other to know how loud or soft to play or what tempo to play. Also, if their no band for a student play for a extracurricular activity, their no chance for the student to list this on their college application. Again from my previous argument, partcipanting in extracurricrlar activties shows colleges that you can manage your time, maintain long time commentment, and show they can make contribution for something[2]. Schools across the country are cutting teachers in order to keep their budgets while making class room sizes larger. If students are having old times in classes because the classes are larger than students can do the same thing my opponent said about playing your instrument home. Students can hire toturs in their spare time and study harder and it could help students prepare for colleges where some classes with over a hundred students. My conclusion for why public schools should fund band is 1. students can recive schoalorships to play in band in college 2. playing an instrument increases people intellengents 3. students can take their musical talents and become an muscian to make their living 4. performing in band makes your college application look better a improve your chances getting into college [1] http://www2.ed.gov...... [2]http://www.collegeboard.com......