Week 4 Writing

Over the last couple of weeks we have been trying to persuade our teacher to allow us to listen to music or or we think that music should not be allowed.

Does music help people learn, or distract them?

Does it depend on the music, or on the person?

I believe that music is a distraction and does not belong in the classroom.

If music were allowed in the classroom, think of all the distractions. All the students with their own music, tapping and banging. If you wanted to get their attention, how would you do it?

People will listen to the music they like, therefore they will focus on the song and not on the work in front of them. Most people like their music loud, even with headphones you can still hear the annoying buzz of the song, this little buzz will distract the other students around them causing a lot of unfinished work.

I think it depends on both, the music and the person. If the person is easily distracted then the will not get as much work as expected. If the music is someone’s favourite song then as I said earlier, they are most likely to concentrate on the song. The music we listen to today is probably deemed inappropriate for school being the song title or the language involved which make the whole idea of listening to music completely pointless.

If less work is completed due to music this will infuriate the teacher, they may even make the students stay in, resulting in wasting our short lunch times and setting a bad tone for the rest of the day.

Therefore, I strongly believe listening to music is a waste of time and will not benefit the students learning. We should keep the school environment for learning and home environment for music and other things.