Petition Discussions

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Petition ID Commenter Date Comment
3048 Alexander Buchanan 2018-05-31T21:58:33.203 I have a musical background because tuition was free and this has been a very important part of my life.
3050 Katrina Evans 2018-05-31T22:03:25.18 I have suffered ME for nearly 5 years. It has affected my whole life.
3048 Catherine Woodward 2018-05-31T22:07:08.29 All music should be free for everyone!
3048 Ayse Bak 2018-05-31T22:25:16.12 I'm a teacher, and feel strongly this is so wrong, to many cuts in the wrong areas and in education.
3048 Stephen Brennan 2018-05-31T22:28:57.567 I had brass lessons at school, and it inspired a life-long passion for music, including a decade singing with the RSN...
3048 Ann McGuigan 2018-05-31T22:31:34.31 Don't let this brilliant opportunity only be available to kids whose parents can afford it.
3003 Paul Hewitt 2018-05-31T22:40:01.343 Utterly disgusting that the big boys think they can build on a site that blood was spilled on. It's a war grave. Cons...
3003 Tammy Cooper 2018-05-31T22:40:30.96 Save our History!
3003 Paul Hewitt 2018-05-31T22:43:18.453 Disgusting that the big boys think they can build on a site that is more or less a war grave. Consider abandoning suc...
3048 Catherine Calder 2018-05-31T22:52:38.383 Music instrumental tuition should be free to all pupils and not just be available to the wealthier families. The SNP...
3048 Maggie Fernie 2018-05-31T22:55:22.587 All children must be given the opportunity to experience music tuition.
3048 Jilly Burns 2018-05-31T22:56:31.4 Music lessons and the opportunity to play on school bands underpinned my entire school experience and achievements an...
3048 Barbara Stuart 2018-05-31T23:05:17.503 Music has a beneficial effect on both the musician and the audience. Apart from that children learn a lot of other th...
3048 Ann Edmonds 2018-05-31T23:07:07.93 Music is vital to the wellbeing of all, to the cultural landscape of our country and to deny children access to being...
3048 Caroline Wilson 2018-05-31T23:24:15.037 If we wish to be an innovative, creative country, we need children who can think and function via many different mode...
3048 Tila Morris 2018-05-31T23:34:07.507 Music tuition is precisely what every child in Scotland needs as part of closing the attainment gap. Removing music t...
3048 Linda Beveridge 2018-05-31T23:37:38.577 Signed for the sake of my children and the future of music...learning to play intruments has had such a positive effe...
3048 Kirsteen wright 2018-05-31T23:37:53.227 Please start understanding the need for the arts in general for all.
3048 Lyn Marshall 2018-05-31T23:44:23.477 As a parent of a child who received free brass tuition at secondary school and who 15 years later still plays in an a...
3050 Eilidh Clements 2018-05-31T23:46:29.977 I have had M.E. for the past 8 years and have lost my twenties. My potential has been wasted because I am living wit...
3048 Julia McGrory 2018-05-31T23:54:29.15 It is not just about learning to play an instrument when a child takes music lessons. They learn so much more along s...
3048 Angela Morlotti 2018-05-31T23:58:30.43 It is important that pupils have the choice to learn how to play musical instruments at school.
3048 Katherine Schofield 2018-06-01T00:23:58.717 Having a child in Clackmannanshire schools, the cost increase is unaffordable and will be devastating to the music se...
3048 Margaret Smith 2018-06-01T00:36:03.17 The arts are equally important as STEM subjects. Music tuition should not just be for those who can afford to pay
3048 Mai Lawrence 2018-06-01T00:51:27.477 The creative arts are an essential part of a child's education both academically and emotionally. In the present clim...
3003 Andrew Duncan 2018-06-01T01:11:12.33 It's imperative that Scottish battlefield sites are preserved for the education of future generations. We cannot allo...
3003 Robin Christ 2018-06-01T02:55:38.307 Destroying historical battlefields is a crime in itself. They need to be preserved to educate the future generations ...
3048 Diana Taylor 2018-06-01T02:55:40.4 The arts, and music in particular, play a very important part in a childs education. More free lessons should be made...
3048 Donald McVicar 2018-06-01T03:55:39.287 Music is classless and can be inspirational for all types of children
3048 Emma Newton 2018-06-01T04:20:19.383 State education is supposed to be free and CfE is supposed to offer young people a wide range of outcomes and experie...
3048 Alan Marshall 2018-06-01T04:31:16.883 This is such sad news! Expressive Arts in all forms provide children, who perhaps are not always academic, an opportu...
3048 Ellen Larson Davidson 2018-06-01T06:43:28.197 I am grateful for the music lessons I received growing up at my school in USA (small rural school district) where mos...
3048 Diana Reeves 2018-06-01T06:47:25.823 All three of my children have gained immensely from their music tuition received in school. It has given them confide...
3048 Janie Scott 2018-06-01T06:55:07.573 My child plays cello at school and goes to a school within an area of deprivation. I am very aware of the small numbe...
3048 Gemma Little 2018-06-01T07:27:50.83 I was thought basis guitar and it was the best experience throughout my high school life, away from books and number...
3048 Amanda MacQuarrie 2018-06-01T07:51:46.533 The wonder and joy of playing music is something all children deserve to have access to, not just those whose parents...
3048 S Clemson 2018-06-01T07:59:49.52 Music has been proven to be one of the few things that uses many different areas of the brain, so is a valuable asset...
3048 Anna Quinn Cooper 2018-06-01T08:09:04.273 Playing a musical instrument gives young people a way too express themselves in a different way.By being able to lear...
3048 Ashley Brandon 2018-06-01T08:09:25.927 I would never have been able to study at RCS if I did not have the free tuition to get me on the starting blocks, thi...
3048 Sarah Paterson 2018-06-01T08:14:00.367 The benefits to children (and therefore to our society) of learning to play an instrument are many and varied. Confi...
3048 Evelyn Irvine 2018-06-01T08:39:31.87 Music tuition is so important to the cultural futures of Scotland and should be freely available to all children
3048 Alison Noble 2018-06-01T08:42:12.133 This is a most important cause. Everyone loves music, young and old
3048 Margaret Robertson 2018-06-01T08:47:52.92 Music in its general form, of any genre, has been proven over and over again to give so many benefits to health and w...
3048 Karen Kelly 2018-06-01T09:03:34.093 My Kids get so much out of their instruments and I can barely afford the tuition for both. I certainly could not affo...
3048 YVONNE FADDES 2018-06-01T09:08:36.887 Children should have free tuition
3048 Madeline Spokes 2018-06-01T09:22:44.813 Scotland has always been a country of musicians. We currently have an extreme lack of teachers and need investment to...
3048 Molly McGavigan 2018-06-01T09:24:00.61 I taught in secondary schools in Scotland (not a music teacher). I saw what great benefits music tuition brought to p...
3003 Marjorie White 2018-06-01T09:44:08.157 Historic Battlefield sites are war graves to be respected.......not building sites.
3048 Paula Wilson 2018-06-01T09:58:23.757 My son has recently started playing Violin. As a low income family we have been fortunate that this year we were able...
3003 Brendon McQueen 2018-06-01T10:06:51.473 Scottish History and sites of historical importance should be protected especially those considered war graves