John Detwiler:

>Basically...  CM is uncool.  It's as simple as that. ...
>
>The first thing, before any national CM program could become successful,
>would be to make CM, if not cool, then acceptable.  Like, for kids bored on
>a Friday night, upset that their favorite place to go is closed, one might
>say "hey, why don't we try the Symphony?" That may not be replied to with
>great deals of enthusiasm, but at least "Sure, that might be pretty cool."
>We must make that scenario possible before any other improvement, I think.

I think you've hit it.  The question I have is why kids find it so important
to be cool in the first place and why they let cool be defined for them by
somebody else.

Steve Schwartz