that cut backs in the arts have never been proportionately fair when compared to cut backs in other programs. Example: *(based on a 5 period teacher load of 5 teaching periods @ 25 students per class). If a school with one thousand stu- dents proposes cuts equalling one teacher in each subject area, they can easily make the case for fairness. But in reality, cutting one math teacher when every student must take math means one of eight math teachers will be eliminated or 12.5% of math staff.* But one music teacher in a typical school with a band, orchestra, chorus and classroom mu- sic teacher results in one of five music teach- ers eliminated or 20% of the staff. I ask, is that fairness?
The time to act is now! You can’t afford
to wait. It takes years to build a quality mu- sic program, but it only takes minutes for an uneducated school board and a subservient administration to destroy a quality com- prehensive program. Once an education program is lost, it rarely if ever returns. We must remind everyone that the cost of edu- cation is far less than the cost of ignorance.
Joseph Pergola is the retired Director of Fine
Arts from the William Floyd School District on Eastern Long Island, New York. A graduate of the New York College of Music, he received his un- dergraduate degree and teacher certification from Dowling College, a Masters Degree from SUNY Stony Brook and his Administrative Degree from C.W. Post University. During his tenure at William Floyd, he taught
elementary, middle school and high school band. His performance ensembles received the highest rat- ing at New York State Ensemble Adjudication for 21 consecutive years.
After being named Director of Fine Arts,
the William Floyd Music Department was named a MENC Model Music Program. The New York State Theater Association and the National Theater Association also named Pergola, Administrator of Year.
He serves as a member of the New York State Council of School Music Administrators and a member of the Advisory Board of the New York State Band Directors Association. Pergola is a pub- lished author with four (4) books to his credit and serves as a frequent clinician at MENC / NAfME Conferences throughout the United States. He cur- rently works for the National Education Service Company as Director of Education and Arts Dvel- opment and is a member of the adjunct faculty at
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