Klarinet Archive - Posting 000721.txt from 2001/05

From: "Dee D. Hays" <deehays@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] School Board
Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 08:28:27 -0400

----- Original Message -----
From: <rgarrett@-----.edu>
Subject: Re: [kl] School Board

> At 07:08 AM 05/27/2001 -0400, you wrote:
> >I did *NOT* suggest elimination of band and chorus from the curriculum.
If
> >you think that I did, you totally misinterpreted what I had to say.
>
> She later clarified:
> >1. Music should be part of the educational curricula. But by this I
mean
> >theory, music history, music development, music appreciation
> >etc. Students could even do a little simple composing and so on.
> >2. Band and chorus should be extracurricular activities for two reasons.
> >a) There isn't time to teach music in either one, what is being taught is
> >performance not music per se. b) If you are in band or chorus, there
are
> >weekend and evening commitments that students in other classes do not
have
> >to contend with.
>
> I've read it seveal times Dee. Numbe 2 and 2a. above suggest band and
> chorus to be extracurricular. I didn't misrepresent you.

OK drop the weekend and evening commitments then. Then make it a legitimate
elective course. Right now the students have to do several times the work
that students do in other classes with not nearly the reward. So long as
they have to march football games, go to contests, play at pep rallies etc
just to get their grade, they are being cheated as a music class. And I
still keep saying make MUSIC mandatory.

Dee Hays
Michigan

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