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jmowreader

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14. This is a consequence of 45 years of slashing school budgets...

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Sun Apr 19, 2026, 04:26 PM

Yesterday

…in the name of lower taxes and “educational reform.”

Schools don’t have enough money to fund everything they’d like to do, and they don’t have enough time to teach electives when they need to prepare kids for standardized testing. Something has to go, and The Arts and Industrial Education are often the first things that do.

Conn is the biggest name in the school band market. When that market goes away, so does Conn.

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