(December 14, 2012) — Because we go to a school where there is an emphasis on science and technology, we don’t face the problems of budget cuts in music programs that most other public schools face.

According to The Durango Herald , the percentage of kids that have access to music in their schools in California has decreased by 50 percent since 2003. People think music programs, and all other art programs for that matter, aren’t as important as the academic subjects such as English, science, math and history, but they are.

Without a music program, a student who has the urge to play might not ever get a chance to. The music program at their school might be the only chance they would get to play.

Music and math have actually been linked together in many cases. To compose a piece, it takes many calculations to get every measurement exactly right, especially if you are working with multiple instruments.

While some students thrive in academics in school, others strive in the arts. Without music programs in public schools, there wouldn’t be schools like Berklee College of Music in Boston or Juilliard in New York City. The matter of the fact is, without music programs in schools, students wouldn’t be able to express themselves.

Also, there would be fewer musicians in this world if the music programs were cut. Without the programs, students wouldn’t be able to concentrate on their work in schools because that is all what they would be doing, work.