Klarinet Archive - Posting 000735.txt from 2001/05

From: rgarrett@-----.edu
Subj: Re: [kl] School Board
Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 11:49:50 -0400

At 09:49 AM 05/27/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>Repeat: Extracurricular does not mean eliminate. They are not synonymous.

Repeat - [make] "Band and chorus.... extracurricular activities" is to
remove it from an existing curriculum. Therefore, it is eliminating it
from the curriculum. You did not say CORE curriculum or required
curriculum. Semantics and definitions.

>No matter which way it is at the schools, it's subject to the whims of the
>local system.

As is the curriculum within the math department, the social studies
department, and every other required curriculum. Teachers make curriculum
- school boards approve or disapprove them.

>Unfortunately MENC standards are not mandatory parts of state school board
>requirements. I want all students in all schools to have some music not
>just those students who enroll in electives or participate in
>extracurricular activities.

So do you refute MENC standards Dee? Are you suggesting that your ideas
are more accurate and better researched then those who set MENC standards
and recommendations?

>National trends don't help the kids in the schools that don't have it or
>are eliminating it.

Your initial post spoke of your ideas for change in a global way. That's
why I posted. If you had said, "in this such and such a school district
where the needs are such and such, I believe the local students and parents
would better benefit from such and such........." then it would have made
no difference to me.

>Again, I was offering alternatives to consider. Never said it was the only
>or best way. And it's not just the rural schools that have problems.
>Madison Heights is a long, long way from rural.

I didn't use the word rural. I don't know where that came from.

>At the LOCAL level. Naturally state mandated requirements are included
>but anything else is fair game for inclusion or exclusion at any point in
>this development review process.

Teachers make curriculum - school boards approve or disapprove.

Best wishes,
Roger Garrett

Roger Garrett
Clarinet Professor
Director, Symphonic Winds
Illinois Wesleyan University
School of Music
Bloomington, IL 61702-2900
Phone: (309) 556-3268
Fax: (309) 556-3121

"A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes
another's."
Jean Paul Richter (1763-1825)

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