Why Music Stays at Yangming 音樂為什麼留在陽明？
Music programs at junior-highs across Taiwan have come and gone with funding cycles, principal changes, and shifting curriculum priorities. Yangming's two ensembles have outlasted all of that — partly because the parents in central Changhua have always sent their children expecting that the school still teaches things that cannot be tested, and partly because, year after year, students have taken up the harmonica or the erhu simply because their older siblings did.
在台灣，許多國中的音樂團隊隨經費、校長更換、課綱調整而起伏。陽明的兩支音樂團隊撐過了這一切——一部分是因為彰化市的家長，一直把孩子送來時就帶著「這所學校還會教那些不能用考試測的事情」的期待；一部分是一屆又一屆的學生，會因為哥哥姊姊吹過口琴、拉過二胡，自己也跟著上去——這所學校的音樂，其實是被學生自己接力傳下來的。
You can hear it in November, when the school welcomes international guests; in May, when the music elective showcases its term work; and on quieter afternoons, drifting from a third-floor practice room into the courtyard outside.
你可以在 11 月聽到他們——當學校招待國際訪客時；可以在 5 月聽到他們——當音樂選修發表期末成果時；也可以在比較安靜的下午聽到他們——從三樓練習室飄出來，越過走廊，進入操場。