Klarinet Archive - Posting 001064.txt from 2002/06

From: "Gary Smith" <asemsi@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] On topic - Music vs. drug testing
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 19:58:50 -0400

I would say -- required participation outside of school hours and in
locations other than school property.

At my h.s., you signed up for band (or the varsity football team) as a class
like any other. Of course, you had to meet performance requirements for any
of the above as well, i.e. try out. There were modest activity and uniform
fees, and I think there were supply fees for art classes (I don't have a
problem with this, BTW). Not much "official" difference, really -- it's just
that there are logistics issues. All of the "complications and hassles" were
related to those logistics issues.

My wife took art classes in high school, and she is of the opinion that many
of her peers would not have passed a drug test. :-)

>From: w7wright@-----.net (William Wright)
>Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
>To: klarinet@-----.org
>Subject: [kl] On topic - Music vs. drug testing
>Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 08:11:18 -0700 (PDT)
>
> <><> Neil Leupold wrote:
>That's what I think, not that this has anything to do with music, but
>I'm sure we could bend it somehow into a shape that is musically
>relevant if we tried.
>
>
>
>We certainly could. The basic issue (for me, at least) is why are
>there different 'citizenship' standards for different school activities,
>and why is =MUSIC= different from (say) graphic arts?
>
>Music and graphic arts are both semi-elective subjects in most schools.
>"Semi-elective" means that most schools require an art of some sort, but
>you get to choose which one. Why is music almost always considered to
>be extra-curricular, with all the extra complications and hassles of an
>extra-curricular activity, whereas graphic arts seldom is?
>
>Cheers,
> Bill
>
>
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