Let me make it clear from the start – I love music.  I love playing music.  I love listening to music.  It provides the background to so much of my life – the good times and the bad.  In fact “We’ve come a long, long way together, through the bad times and the good! It was this love of music that inspired my option choices at school – taking music at O and A level.  It was music that was my main study when training as a Primary teacher years ago, and it was as a music teacher that I gained my first job – and others since! So what is wrong, I hear you ask!  Where do I begin? For too long, schools have been narrowing down their curriculum.  Whether this is for alleged lack of interest at GCSE and above is open to debate, but if the option does not exist in school then how can children study the subject.  Music, like sport, is a life-enriching study.  Many clubs, band, orchestras etc take place outside curriculum time.  Certa...