Project Agony: Why 4th-grade recorder lessons are mandatory!

Writer’s Note “I am posting my whole story I wrote a few years ago, but without any proof to show you, I figured out the connection between the Philadelphia Project and the Montauk Project and wrote a story about why the recorder must be taught in every school in America.”

By William J Ritchotte II

“The Recorder, It’s an airy train whistle in the distance. A shrill car alarm up close.” ~ the Chicago Tribune

Chapter 1–1943 Jefferson NH Elementary School

Susie Dunkins walked out of her 4th-grade class blowing into her new recorder with her two friends she walked home with. Her teacher had given her one for the school’s annual recorder concert that would take place at the end of the school year. Like the rest of her classmates, they each passed over a quarter and received an instrument.

The school had a clause in their bylaws to teach music and at least one instrument but the school board could not afford to rent and repair the different types needed to fulfill each child’s musical whim during a war and decided on one cheap instrument they could afford to break and replace; sometimes in the presence of the child.