Happy crazy Friday music education lovers!! Man, what a busy week it's been here at MENC!
With so many new and exciting music education advocacy ideas in the works, it's really going to be an awesome next few months here at MENC for the Government Relations & Outreach Department!! (just you wait and seeeeeee!) All of these great new music education advocacy and government relations projects got me to thinking though... maybe it would be fun to share with you all, the "Inside MENC" readers, a few of MENC's most recent "advocacy idea outtakes." After all, it's not just every music education promotional strategy that can end up being a certified winner--and so, there's always bound to be at least a few castoffs by the end of every brainstorming session.
So with that in mind...
Here are the "Top 10 MENC Music Education Advocacy Idea Rejects!"
(10.) Invite some friends over for a dinner party, then proceed to serenade them over the course of the entire evening about the endless wonders of providing children with quality music education programs (refuse to be interrupted for any reason whatsoever).
(9.) Dress up as a giant music note and wear your costume to work every day. Music teachers might catch a break for this sort of behavior, but good luck explaining your actions if you work in practically any other job (and if you do, as you're being reprimanded by your boss, use it as an opportunity to discuss the inherent value in offering music education in our schools).
(8.) Offer free concerts in your front lawn featuring your children and pets performing for anyone who will listen. Take requests from the mailman, dog walker, pool boy, etc. Don't be shy.
(7.) Change your car's horn to The Rolling Stones' "Start Me Up."
(6.) Stage a barbershop quartet sing-a-long in your child's principal's office. Sing loudly and proudly about music education. Display no shame for having adorned your candy striper style pants.
(5.) Next time you stop by a fast food restaurant for lunch, sing your order into the loudspeaker at the top of your lungs. "Laaaaaaaaaaarge fry and some funding for music ed-U-caaAAaaAAaation!, YEAH!"
(4.) Dress up as your child's music teacher for Halloween. It's not creepy. I promise. Wait, yes it is.
(3.) Insist to your neighbors and friends that the "The Music Man" was originally written about an amazing elementary or secondary school level music teacher. Appear angry and agitated when people disagree. Don't back down.
(2.) Any time someone turns a radio on, stand up, throw your arms into the air, and claim to be orchestrating the music. Insist that you're capable of performing this feat on the fly thanks for to having such an amazing music education as a child.
And the number one MENC Music Education Advocacy Idea Reject...
...which actually has nothing to do with the list at all but is something that we really DO want you to do...
(1.) Visit us here at MENC! We love music educators and we're just as in love with music education as you are!! We'll all make great friends :-)
Ta da!
And now... here are the Friday...
"Government Relations & Outreach Department Album Picks of the Week!!!"
SKJ: Went home sick. Feel better!!
HLS: Queen - Greatest Hits
CBLW: Eisley - Combinations
