Could jamming to your favorite tunes actually be a benefit while working on a research paper in Chemistry class? Might Drake’s latest album, HYFR, be the key to your success in the future? As a matter of fact, recent findings from The Center for New Discoveries in Learning, music improves one’s learning potential by blocking out any external aberrations occurring within the world behind the student, and focuses him or her on concentration!
In my opinion, it increases focus among students making an outline for the upcoming chapter exam about the Mole in Chemistry, and finally, it is the only way some students can actually find amusement while being in school and taking notes. Now the decision is on you, should music be banned? Because, and I think I speak for about maybe, 99% of students my age, I reckon it shouldn’t! For the most part, students believe that “school is prison”, due to the lack of freedom schools present, and a central idea on freedom in school is having the power to control what is being played into your ears from those new apple ear buds.
Students’ enjoy freedom when they have the opportunity to be free and one way to be free is just migrate into their own little “Ultra” and just cut a rug while plodding down the glistening silver, amber-filled cardinal floors to their ensuing class. When the sophomores fill that English II class with Ms. Milian, should these adolescents be enforced to squirrel away their iPhones and iPods? Think about it. It should be spoken, nation-wide, that music improves focus.
It does not matter what form the music is in, as long as the music is there. For instance, the episode of Hannah Montana, where if she doesn’t pass her final exam for biology, She, Oliver and Lilly wouldn’t have been able to go to Europe for Hannah’s tour! Well, in that part, she had to create a song with a pertaining dance, in order to pass. She was just as clueless as I am, but instead of biology, I struggle in Algebra 2… I bet it’s because the teacher doesn’t let us listen to our favorite Beatles album, “Revolver”.
Anyhow, Hannah or “Miley” had no clue in her right mind how to pass the exam other than to become Hannah in her head, which nobody knew! So, if Hannah Montana beat Biology with music, I can be a little Chuck Norris and roundhouse these outlines forced out of the ink of my pen, which our teacher dragoons upon us. It causes pain in the seams of my hand like some acupuncture malfunction upon my dominant right hand. But I can “checkmate” this with my Beats and all my music, which make me resistant and indestructible against the load of work my teachers assign.
Moreover, students’ happiness at school is all dependent on whether they have that scenario-in-life-defining music, or not. For example, I haven’t had my phone for the past, I don’t know, about 30 and three quarter days now, and my only short cut to my whole playlist is my laptop. If it weren’t for, what I consider, “my baby” I’d would feel as if I am living a bereft life on that unfortunate dawn for the day. It feels like a major heartache upon you, and like you have no purpose being anywhere.
That being the case, I just take my friend’s phone, but that’s off topic. To return to the subject, music is what defines students worldwide. It’s what makes them express their inner joy with a smile, when they feel they shouldn’t be… *cough* at school… *cough, cough*. It’s just like the smile we Americans put on our faces when we heard these words “Osama Bin Laden has been killed”. However, music doesn’t HAVE to be some jolly tune; I can listen to any song and still complete assignments. As long as it relieves me of the stress Ms. Ervin puts on me.
Like when girls, excuse me, “young women”, go through what they consider “the worst breakup they’ve ever faced” and listen to Gotye’s “Somebody that I Used to Know”, that can somewhat relieve them of any sadness or hatred or fire breathing anger that has engulfed them within their hearts and bodies. To continue, it doesn’t really matter if students are in class and listening to music while working on some questions assigned from that AP Euro book that looks like a bible… I would still have a smile on my face when my Maroon 5 “Overexposed” album shuffles.
I don’t give a tinker’s damn if the questions are for college students, no! As long as I have all my attention on the question and my mind’s backup is my all-time favorite album, I could accomplish anything with a smile on my face. Although it can be argued that all music be compelled to be expelled from all school subdivisions due to possible distraction or bad influence, the main point is that students show their progress in their endeavor towards the future and conquer school in their own unique ways.
As has been previously stated and analyzed, listening to music during class should be a total yes! Under those circumstances, students do not only be reduced to any outdoor disturbances and enter their own focused world, but it also makes school a positive environment for learning amongst all those Freshmen, Sophomores, Juniors and Seniors in high school that see school as a prison, or an asylum in upstate New York, creepy and there’s no way out.
Except, of course, for us here in Dade-County, where dismissal is at 2:20. I think that the clear answer to your question, is a no, music should not be banned in schools, unless you would enjoy to see a rapid, drastic decline in academic grades and a dramatic increase in drop-out rates. So, the decision is yours. After what you have read, if you had to choose between music in school, during class, or a bad reputation in the district, what color would you want your headphones to be and what album would you choose?
