No Music In Music Lessons

Ofsted have moaned that too many music lessons don't contain music, and you'd think that it would be a pre-requisite of music lesson - to play/create the stuff.

The trouble is, and this is true of all subjects, is that the teachers are receiving mixed messages from the inspectors. And by that I mean the following:

1. A room full of children, many with a limited aptitude for music, trying to create a masterpiece would be most people's idea of hell and totally unrealistic. It would just be a cacophony unless headphones were employed and then the teacher can't actually teach because the class can't hear the teacher. The class need to learn the fundamentals of creating listenable music before actually attempting to do it. Very few people are capable of writing something good in their teens or below, unless they are named Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. And unless all that is produced, sound-wise, is recorded, there is little or no evidence of the children actually doing anything or crucially, making progress. Ofsted wouldn't put up with this - evidence in the form of data/marks is key to tracking progress. Ofsted slating immediately on the grounds of "how do you know they have progressed?"
2. In order to gain evidence something needs to be produced by each and every child, and the obvious thing would be something written down by the class. Unless they play an instrument with their foot whilst writing something down (where's Daniel Day Lewis when you need him?). Ofsted want to see music though, so once again Ofsted slating is on its way despite the creation of evidence.

Essentially you can't win, and I know that I'm taking it to the extreme in these cases and ideally you need a mixture of the two, but the point is that the messages from those who "know" are totally mixed and this is the entire problem with teaching at the moment - nobody has a clue what they are supposed to be doing.

I'm kind of getting used to it now.