Klarinet Archive - Posting 001094.txt from 1997/10

From: Roger Garrett <rgarrett@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: what I have to teach
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 1997 08:41:43 -0500

In most schools, band is an elective.......no student is required to take
the course, and neither is the teacher required to allow the student to
continue if they are a problem. If the classroom is disrupted by a
student, the student should be removed.......and from band that can mean
permanently. The possible loss of the class is what keeps some of them in
line.......and if they don't want to be there anyway, you don't want them
there. It is better to have a less numbers and a better teaching
environment.......

Band should be the class students want to be in....because it's cool. If
it's not cool to them, things need to change.

This is a possible alternative to moving.....

Roger Garrett

On Sat, 25 Oct 1997 pmedina@-----.net wrote:

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> There are
> regular ed kids in these classes I have. I don't understand why their
> education has to suffer for the few who are problems. What happend to
> having control over who is in your band program? The term that keeps coming
> is inclusion. I see the kids every other day for 90 minutes as we are on
> block scheduling. It is a frustrating situation that just seems to get
> worse. Every week there is a fight in the area where the kids wait for
> busses. We did not used to have this much violent behavior in the school.
> The elementary teachers tell us the current 5th grade group is also bad.
> The only solution I see for myself is moving.
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