ABSTRACT
At the meeting the council said that the three subjects should hang together or be hanged together but the warning was ignored and the meeting was characterised by an argument over who owned dance. The government's final and controversial decision was to put dance within physical education (PE) which was to prove a mixture of triumph and disappointment. After consultation, National Curriculum Council (NCC) rejected the group's view that dance should be compulsory up to 16 as it was persuaded by the all-boys schools, mostly independent, that it was not feasible to ask large teenage boys to take dance seriously if they did not want to. By the time NCC began its consultation on music it had abandoned its commmittee structure so that when it came to offer advice to the Secretary of State it was fundamentally based on the views of the council members.
