Teaching shifts

Wherever I go, I hear that music in schools is not what it used to be. By this it is not meant that the music which used to be taught is now taught according to different principles, but that the music which used to be taught is now not represented at all. School choirs no longer sing Christian music because the schools themselves aspire to a non-denominational atmosphere. The resources which used to go into maintaining an orchestra are now split among ethnic bands of every sort, because the Western orchestral tradition has been marginalised probably with the stigma that it is elitist. When I sat the other day listening to candidates for an organ award try to play tests which not long ago were commonplace (transposition, score-reading in C clefs, harmonising a melody, fun things like that) I was told these skills are no longer taught (and C clefs no longer a part of common parlance).