Klarinet Archive - Posting 000922.txt from 2004/03

From: "Film & Music Promotion Management" <FilmPromotion@------.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] not just the music department
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 08:05:28 -0500

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Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@------.net>
Subject: RE: [kl] not just the music department
Message-Id: <5.1.1.6.0.20040316181048.0366b168@------>

At 11:38 AM 3/16/2004 -0500, Allen Levin wrote:
>That's not "No Child Left Behind" it is "IDEA". The 20% who are
"special"
>get priority; the 20% who are "gifted" come next. Then, if there's
any
>money left, the 60 % who are "normal" get an education. At what point
do
>you stop accommodating the profoundly retarded child whose mother
insists
>that he play in the band?

Don't the judges at the band festivals/competitions KNOW that they
must
make allowances for that child? ;-)

Bill Hausmann

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I was judging Regional Band Auditions several years ago and I remember
getting a note from a Mom asking if her Daughter could have extra time
alloted to her previewing the sightreading piece due to a vision
impairment.

All I remember of it was sending the note to the head of the
Audition's asking "what the hell do we do with this???"

The other issue that I though of with it was "ok, if the kid can't see
the music very well, how will she see the Director? "
I don't believe in mainstreaming as it slows down the higher learners.
To undereducate the smart as well as overeducate the slow is just
wrong!

Teach them both at their own levels.

David Blumberg
http://artists.primetones.com/blummy

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