Klarinet Archive - Posting 000821.txt from 2004/03

From: Gary Van Cott <gary@------.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Education
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 13:03:52 -0500

I find this rather amusing. At the Las Vegas Academy of International
Studies, Performing and Visual Arts (a public magnet high school), male
band majors tend to fill the ecological niche left by the absence of
jocks. Someone has to be obnoxious and there are usually some low brass
and percussion players who are exceptionally well qualified.

Gary
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At 08:56 AM 3/14/04,Patricia Smith wrote:
At one high school I visited, which shall remain nameless, I had one of
these former jock assistant principals say to me, when I asked about
programs for children gifted in the arts, that he didn't think that the
"artsy types" should be allowed to segregate themselves away from the rest
of society in special schools for the performing arts, etc. They need to
fit in with the rest of society - at least this was the gist of what I
understood him to say.

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