Petition Discussions

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Petition ID Commenter Date Comment
3048 Mick Cooke 2018-06-08T13:14:43.037 A musically literate and creative population is what I believe is needed to survive this coming period of change!
3048 Pauline Shearer 2018-06-08T13:25:52.117 My son was given the opportunity in 2012 to take up chanter in primary school and then became a world champion in 201...
3048 Mary Traynor 2018-06-08T16:27:46.53 Think it is terrible that parents have to pay for music tuition, after all music is a universal language
3048 Beverley Hart 2018-06-08T17:37:33.29 I am Scottish but now retired to Spain. Music was taught to me for free and should still be the case.
3048 Lesley Gormley 2018-06-08T17:45:52.98 Cannot imagine how sad it would be to have a time when music tuition is not affordable for the majority. The opportun...
3048 Julie Gilmour 2018-06-08T21:50:41.403 Please save our music tuition!
3048 Leanne Knight 2018-06-08T21:51:59.98 Why destroy the best instrumental service in schools in the world??
3048 Jill hubbard 2018-06-08T22:05:56.357 My daughter went through a difficult time and music helped her through it and she loves playing instruments and expre...
3048 David Low 2018-06-08T23:14:58.18 Like so many others, I benefitted hugely from a musical education from primary school onwards. Playing the violin gav...
3048 Lynsey Combe 2018-06-09T06:30:56.257 I was given the opportunity to play an instrument at school, I would never have been able to do this if my parents ha...
3048 Phillip Lamb 2018-06-09T08:47:17.76 Music is a perfect media for all. Playing is interacting with others, gives a sense of achievement, teaches disciplin...
3048 Joanna Whittington 2018-06-09T10:09:08.1 Every study that looks at the impact of learning music on attainment across the curriculum shows that music has a pos...
3048 Mhairi Smith 2018-06-09T10:36:03.37 I went to a comprehensive school in Gorbals in Glasgow during the 70s. Sir Alexander Gibson visited my school with hi...
3048 Kirsten Duncan 2018-06-09T11:07:12.56 Both my children receive musical tuition at present and have benefited greatly from this.
3048 Susanne Coulter 2018-06-09T11:40:01.113 All children should have access to music lessons no matter what school they go to
3048 Suzanne Senior 2018-06-09T12:17:47.233 Music instruction is provided in schools during the school day and therefore should be free of charge, without a redu...
3048 Wendy Watkins 2018-06-09T12:26:59.077 My late husband was one of Europe's leading trumpet players. His father and his grandfather taught in schools and at...
3048 Gordon Jamieson 2018-06-09T13:17:47.173 Was taught brass in the late sixties and it has been part of my life always. 15 years with the Black Watch military b...
3048 Elaine Brown 2018-06-09T14:18:51.307 GIRFEC seems to be forgotten when it comes to music. Please give music parity of esteem with so called academic subj...
3048 Marjory Bissett 2018-06-09T14:27:17.047 I have been supporting the music department of my local school for several years because of cuts and fees.some talent...
3048 George Wilson 2018-06-09T15:09:31.803 I suspect that East Lothian Council are not being open with the public about their plans and that worse may yet come ...
3048 Robert Burns 2018-06-09T16:29:07.557 Scottish Goverment,wake up smell the coffee this is very important let the kids have free music tuition.
3048 Elizabeth Hainey 2018-06-09T16:57:49.267 Children should be encouraged to learn a musical instrument or be involved in music from the earliest of their primar...
3048 David Currie 2018-06-09T17:01:17.723 I had world-class music teachers and world-class access to fantastic music resources when I was at school. Please don...
3048 Gavin Strathearn 2018-06-09T18:59:46.63 This is about so much more than reducing tuition costs. It opens the door to a creative outlet that many will not hav...
3003 Catherine Rolland 2018-06-09T19:10:11.157 Culloden and the surrounding area is a war grave & should be protected. There are plenty other sites for house buildi...
3048 William Marr 2018-06-09T19:29:52.833 We demand free music tuition at all schools and colleges.
3003 John MacDonald 2018-06-10T00:49:52.813 Culloden has to be protected by The Scottish Government.
3003 Anne Fleming 2018-06-10T04:51:56.15 These battlegrounds should be hallowed ground.
3003 Yvonne Percival 2018-06-10T07:56:46.373 The battlefields not only hold huge historical value but they are also war graves, & as such sacred. Please protect t...
3048 Fiona Nightingale 2018-06-10T10:09:53.333 Discouraging youngsters who are engaged in creative, collective, stimulating and character-building activity? Society...
3048 Kirstie Howard 2018-06-10T14:30:12.533 Every child have the opportunity to become a band geek.
3048 Norma Wilson 2018-06-10T14:31:13.66 My niece plays violin at Whitburn Academy and is member of West Lothian Youth Orchestra and recently got the opportun...
3048 John Irvine 2018-06-10T15:57:20.827 I got to learn several instruments whilst playing for the local BB band and my time at school. It does help you in so...
3048 Mary Hutchison 2018-06-10T16:33:23.73 Music improves academic achievement
3048 Joseph M. Borg-Costanzi 2018-06-10T17:40:30.237 Music, Philosophy, History, Mathematics and the structure of languages should all taught at school from an early age.
3048 David Frame 2018-06-10T17:41:51.817 The video says it all. Its not just an instrument...its life long streetwise multifunction learning!
3048 Hugh McGarrigle 2018-06-10T18:52:13.077 My daughter was given the chance to learn the violin in primary 4. She loves it and is now part of the local schools ...
3048 Catherine Clark 2018-06-10T19:27:41.22 Of all things to cut this is one of the most stupid...music enhances everything else it has been proven that it helps...
3048 Alison Sweeney 2018-06-10T20:11:48.15 Instrumental music is so important -
3003 Donald MacKenzie 2018-06-10T21:48:22.537 There are lots of empty field that people can build on. Do not sacrifice our history for the sake of profit. Indeed, ...
3003 Morag connell 2018-06-10T21:56:32.117 Preserve our heritage and sacred space
3003 David Donnelly 2018-06-10T22:27:54.027 These places are of historical significance and councils should not have the right to give these builders the right t...
3048 Andrew Braes 2018-06-10T22:30:28.793 Music is so important to Scottish culture and identity
3048 Gordon Bickerton 2018-06-10T22:40:51.763 Music has been proven to give children confidence. It should be mandatory in our education system.
3003 Grace Dunn 2018-06-10T22:51:12.5 Our history is important and we must learn from it and retain it, especially today. I am only now aware of the lack ...
3003 Anne Watt 2018-06-10T23:03:43.697 Any building is sacrilege
3003 Gail Topping 2018-06-10T23:54:40.003 We should be preserving our history for future generations and respecting those who lost their lives in battle. Pleas...
3003 Rosina Cargill 2018-06-11T00:40:26.47 I am fed up of my Scottish Heritage and History being slowly chipped, chipped, chipped away. In the words of Cicero "...
3003 Florence Gardner 2018-06-11T02:05:12.493 I think it is important that Scottish History is preserved and respected . This site is part of our history and impor...