@@JKSSubstandard in this case it is the school board making the decision so it wouldn't be up to me, it is up to them and the ppl that voted them in. If it was my business tho guess I would just fold it all up and start over.
@@JKSSubstandard old comment and I'm not sure how I ended up here but you don't have to fire themselves, CEOs can and have docked their own pay in the past to get through an issue. Especially when their pay can be several times larger than other employees and they're not as reliant on it every month as someone living pay check to pay check.
"I don't think you have any appreciation for our financial problems", says one of the Board Of Trustees during the part at the meeting. Just one question; what exactly is there to appreciate in regards to the school's financial problems, especially if cutting a certain program means that certain teachers will immediately lose their jobs as a result of those said financial problems? If a certain program makes the cut, not only will it disappoint students who partake in those activities, but it will also result in teachers being placed on the unemployment line. Plus, Mr. Holland made an excellent point stating that by cutting the music program could lead to a generation of students who will not to know how to think for themselves and be forced to live by the code that most of the older generation expects them to live by. It just comes to show that most schools around the nation prefer to maintain the actual curriculum (i.e. Math, world history, etc...) and not much to teach them about Mozart or anything else in regards to the fine arts. It's all about the money, not about the students' rights to think for themselves.
If you drop a program like that then you won't have to pay the teachers, pay for music equipment and so on. They will be saving money. That's what they mean by "I don't think you have any appreciation for our financial problems." They are trying to save any money that they can.
Studying the arts or music does not yield people who can think for themselves....It does lead to massive drug addiction and lawlessness by those involved. Just look at the statistics of the Hollywood types related to drug abuse and suicide..
Or math, or science. It's the same old story, decade after decade. Send kids to school ONLY to contribute to the economy & the wealth of America. The wealth of America obviously doesn't mean art.
5:10 - these lines, how they'd never cut the football program, were the one I remembered most from the movie (that and the sign language for asshole, haha). It made him sound petty, petulant, and it created an awkward situation for his friend who was trying to comfort him. I get it that he hates the arts programs were under-appreciated/under-valued vs. the sports programs, but in high school the sports programs typically bring in more revenue than the arts. Ideally you'd have both but under the circumstances, its not surprising. But more to the reason I didn't like this part of the movie, I think it was a d*ck comment to say right in front of his friend.
It sounded like a petty jab towards his friend, but it was the truth. His friend took it as the truth and he knew that mr. Holland was just venting. People get petty and sarcastic when they are venting... Especially after everything Mr. Holland went through in the movie.
