Klarinet Archive - Posting 001474.txt from 1998/04

From: SAXY R13 <SAXYR13@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [klarinet] Middle School Music Scheduling....Help!!!
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 1998 11:25:24 -0400

In a message dated 98-04-26 10:16:56 EDT, you write:

<< Dear listers:

Does anyone out there have a good scheduling situation for middle school
music? Our schedule is not good-----we pull kids out of class for
lessons---which I assume is universal, but we ALSO pull kids out for a 1
double period band/orchestra rehearsal each week! Needless to say this
affects our enrollment.....kids missing 3 classes a week and all.

We do not have individual schedules for students. They travel as a class to
each major subject teacher. Besides the academic classes (Math, Science, 2
periods of Language Arts, Foriegn Language), we have 2 periods of UA/PE
rotation, in which General Music, Home Ec., Technology, Art, Health,
Physical Education are allotted a certain number of weeks each (although
Phys. Ed. meets EVERY DAY).

We also have a "PEP" period where kids get enrichment in various subjects
like ecology, keyboarding, humanities...etc. and other kids go to resource
room or gifted and talented.

We seem to be having a problem fitting music ensembles into all of this!
I thought of scheduling during the PEP period but then the kids who go to
resource room or gifted and talented would then be excluded (not a good
idea).
>>

As a middle school student in 3 bands at school, I have a fairly good
schedule. On Mondays through Wednesdays, I go to band class during the school
day. I go during my activity period (on Thursday and Friday I go to a
different activity period; in 1 half of the year it is computer class, the
other half phys. ed.), so I am not missing any classes.
After school on Tuesdays and Thursdays, I go to Symphonic Band rehearsal for
an hour. We have 2 Jazz Bands at school, with Jazz 1 being the better of the
2 bands. Jazz 1 (which I'm in) rehearses on Wednesdays, and Jazz 2 (which I'm
not in) rehearses on Fridays.

<<A) How many periods a week do your kids get Phys. Ed.? >>

We get 2 50-minute periods of phys. ed. per week.

<<D) What are non-music kids doing at the time when rehearsals are going on?
>>

On Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays, during our band class, non-band students
go to a General Music class. Band students do not take the General Music
class at all.

Good luck with your scheduling!
Robyn

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