Klarinet Archive - Posting 000137.txt from 1997/08

From: benevolent1@-----. Horney)
Subj: Kids Today
Date: Tue, 5 Aug 1997 20:34:39 -0400

What's the matter with *kids* these days? Well, speaking as a
kid whose first band director never told me how to do anything with my
instrument, I ask what is the matter with band directors these days. I
never was even told how to choose a reed or how to correctly swab my
instrument until our school hired a real woodwind two years later than I
started. The first director played trumpet and couldn't even put a
clarinet together, let alone teach us how to care for it.
Sorry, I just had to vent. I am so sick of being told that because one
kid did something a bit questionable (as this bathtub thing was), I am
stupid or rude or cynical. I maintain straight A's, and am president of
a debating society. I started in JYR when I was in second grade, and was
elected president when I was in fifth. This society is for members aged
7-18, and the high schoolers who made up the majority of the club thought
I was responsible so they elected me as their leader.
I know this was probably left as an off-handed remark, but I
think you could have ended the otherwise well-meaning thought with a more
appropriate closing. I am sorry, this was not meant as a chastising
message, but I really dislike generalizations when more appropriate
conclusions could be made.

Sarah
benevolent1@-----.com

On Tue, 05 Aug 1997 18:03:41 EDT hlandry@-----.com (Harvey G Landry)
writes:
>
>True story: A friend of mine who is a band teacher told me once that
>one of his clarinet students tried to wash his instrument in the
>bathtub. And it was a WOOD clarinet. What's the matter what kids
>these days?
>
>Mel
>hlandry@-----.com