Baron Que                                Why I think Music schools will open later in BC

Music schools In BC have been closed for sometimes but like all schools in the province they have either gone online or ,limited in person classes or a hybrid of the two. But when it comes to this next school year.  They are going to definitely going to open late. And here is why I think that.

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• The fact that they play instruments. Well the next thing you might ask instruments? What does that have to do with anything? Ok so some instruments need a mouth to play them let’s name a few examples, Trumpets, Clarinet’s and Trombones. They all require you to blow in them and the Coronavirus is an respiratory disease so that is a big no no . This also covers singing as well.

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• Not really a priority. Music schools when compared to K-12 schools or Post- Secondary Schools are not as important objectively to open back up. You can argue how music changes people and why they should open back up Music schools at the same time as the other two, but they cannot produce basic education Like Math’s ,Sciences and English like K-12 school can. And they cannot produce as much useful people in the workforce like the Post- Secondary schools can. Sure you can play the piano, but can you fix my car? Build me a house? Or do my Taxes? Most likely not.

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• The only real arguments will likely be an appeal to emotion, not logical ones. The only possible argument on the other side is that it will not be fair to the kids and staff who work there. While that maybe true. Is just only an emotional one. Life is not fair, and yet life still goes on. And to hammer this point further. Logically in September if Students fully go back to school what if there will be rises of COVID cases? We would have to go back to our current format again? In my perspective they will most likely open more but still leave a limited capacity just to see if any COVID cases spike. By doing that they will continue to halt opening music schools opening up completely until we get a clear green light. And that will most likely be for another 6 Months from September.

While I do present these arguments to you I really do hope I am wrong. I know I have been pretty despondent, but it is just the facts that I see right now form the situation that we are all in right now. Thank you for reading. Hopefully I gave you some food for thought.