>Wow. I thought all public schools had music, chorus, and band. My daughter took private piano lessons, but she learned the violin in school. Lessons were daily. I studied cornet, piano, guitar, and flute in school. It's been available at every school I attended across the U.S. and all of my daugther's schools.
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You had good schools! He is actually not in the public school, but in yeshiva (free yeshiva with mostly bukharian kids which is sponsored by Israeli businessman Levy Levaev). And I believe music and gym lessons have less priority in it...