A fund raiser for Windham's and music programs will take place at Willimantic Brewing Company Wednesday, March 13th, 6-9 pm. Come out, meet your neighbors and concerned citizen and rally for Windham students. Windham High's music program needs our financial support to help maintain and grow the program.
There is little doubt that terrific failures have been made in the Windham Public Schools over the last 20 years. If you want to trace it be my guest. This has been in no little fault due to the Board of Education. Unbelievably, though generally good, and rarely punctual, the people on this Board have systematically, made decisions to the Deficit of our children and our community and therefor our economy. This is mostly shocking to me personally because I have known members prior to their election, yet somehow getting on that board perplexes their ability to make rationale decisions any longer. For some magical reason I cannot comprehend we have allowed these people to take a once really vibrant exciting educational community and turn it into ... I don't even know what, but it's mediocre in general, perhaps even at best. The one good man they had they allowed their lovely and well spoken superintendent to fire. You'rewelcome Coventry! I mean, I believe that Ana Ortiz is a quite good soldier, but we need a General. Even just a one star general, but a general non-the-less. Every decision of consequence that she has made about which I have been aware, she made wrong, and your property value is suffering because of it.
The charter should just eliminate the Board of Ed and make the Superintendent run for office. Is that legal? Someone check it out;-)
But if nothing else: Give these children Great Music. How often are you playing Mozart at home? Or Bach or Chopin? How about Kander and Ebb, or Andy Williams, or the Andrew Sisters and Bing Crosby and Jazz. How often do children even just sit and listen to music, let alone perform it? In Windham, it's ten minutes less a week than mandated by the state. How is this possible? I honestly can tell you it is because until fairly recently, no one really gave a s**t. Oh, it's music, who cares, just cut it? We need more jock straps. And everyone would agree, of course, to geting more jockstraps, our boys can't pummel the crap out of each other unless their boys are fitted properly. So, just cut music. Just get rid of it. And they did. No joke here folks. Your Board of Education just did just that. They just simply eliminated music. These jokers, with few exceptions, have got to go.
The buzz of technology is all about us, it is all consuming and overwhelming. Hearing music, reading music, feeling music helps keep us alive. Even the remotest monks have music. Music is a universal language. You can go into any bar in Germany, or Peru and say, hey...Elvis Presley! You will immediately have friends. Run in and yell GO PATRIOTS! and see what happens.
The children of this community deserve to learn about music. Even if they're awful at it and tone deaf and can't hold a note in a bucket made of glass, expose them to it. They will always be thankful.
Music, grows the brain. It's good for you. It's been proven highly beneficial.
Why aren't we fighting for it in our schools?
Wait. I know why...we're too busy fighting to put more guns in our schools instead. Riiiggghhhhtttt.
David Fenn
Windham Center
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