We’ve seen this story again and again. City officials or store owners want to keep teens from hanging out so they play classical music to chase them off. If the kids had music education in school they’d probably like the music and it wouldn’t deter them. This latest idiotic example is in the western Washington town of Sequim (pronounced SQUIM), where city officials want to clear young people out of the city transit center.
Three points jumped out at me from the article on Peninsula Daily News.com. One is that the kids have been hanging out at this location “for decades,” so obviously they are not that big of a problem. Two is that the kids are WAY smarter than the adults, and three, the Sequim radio station is no great shakes, so this might be an improvement.
…several found there Wednesday said it would be “cool” to have classical music sounding over Half Block. “If they want to deter people from coming here, they should pipe in the Sequim radio station,” said Jackie Cary, a Sequim High School senior who has come to visit friends at Half Block for five years. She was one of the young people who voiced approval for classical music at the site that each school day draws between 20 and 30 youths.
Ha-ha. Bureaucrats can be so dumb.
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