Jeezus wept.

To read the comments of so-called "literate" Portlanders on this article is depressing. Music is essential. I'm not going to recite the litany of research showing how it affects minds and learning forever. Go look it up. It's a crime to not have music in every school, every grade.

Tell you what: let's have a Run For The Math, ok?  Get Intel and all those precious tech companies to fund Math and Science, ok?  The can have fundraisers and meetings and wring their hands and lobby to get Math/Science into schools, as 'electables" as one dim bulb put it. Instead, fully fund Art for, oh, the next generation and let's see how everyone does. There.  Problem solved.