Amy van Loon

Music program at LGUHS must be saved

I write this letter in regard to the recent budgets proposed for the Leland & Gray Union High School music department.

This letter comes from a freshman who has recently left the cozy, comfortable world of southern Vermont for the much broader horizon of “the real world” at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in upstate New York.

College is an incredible learning opportunity that needs to be taken advantage of in a world where job opportunities are becoming rapidly more competitive.

I am extremely thankful that I was able to go Leland & Gray, where I was given a wide range of opportunities to explore education in whatever way I wanted.

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