Klarinet Archive - Posting 000878.txt from 2004/03

From: "Gary Drennan" <psa119@------.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] not just the music department
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 09:24:15 -0500

Hey Bill!

I too remember the three tracks and band was open to all, UNLESS you droped
below a C average overall. Then you could not go on extracirricular trips
like exchange concerts or do sports. Our auditions, however, were grueling!
Squeaks did not get in until they did not squeak! All of us were given free
lessons through the school by the first chairs of the U.S. Coast Guard band,
who came down every week to do so. Thye were only an hour away. Excellent
players!

SO much comes from band. Administrators are cutting off a major part of what
an education can do. Sports makes heros for a day, music makes players for a
lifetime.

Gary

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Hausmann" <bhausmann1@------.net>
To: <klarinet@------.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 5:41 AM
Subject: RE: [kl] not just the music department

> At 10:48 PM 3/15/2004 -0500, Ginger Hill wrote:
> >Yeah, leave it to "no child left behind" for my hometown music program
> >to go to hell. Since they can't have selective recruiting (meaning only
> >the kids with decent grades and skills could play in band), now anybody
> >can do it. There's no recruitment procedure, 70% dropout rate... It's
> >horrible.
>
> Ironically, this is probably the WORST thing they can do. It GUARANTEES
> that the less gifted will continue to fall farther behind, and the most
> gifted will be held back. Back when I was in high school (a parochial
> school), there were three "tracks." "A" track was strictly a college prep
> curriculum, "B" track was somewhat more general (MANY went on to college
> also), and "C" track had the shop/home ec/business courses to prepare for
a
> non-college future. Everybody got what was best for THEIR particular
> needs. The slower students were not in direct competition with the
> brighter ones, and also did not hold the brighter ones back. Of course,
> this would be considered discriminatory today. Everybody, in the spirit
of
> equality, would have to take the "B" curriculum, regardless of how poor a
> choice that would be for 2/3 of the students! By the way, band was open
to
> ALL.
>
>
> Bill Hausmann
>
> If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is TOO LOUD!
>
>
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