Klarinet Archive - Posting 001108.txt from 2004/03

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] not just the music department
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 06:36:00 -0500

At 08:01 AM 3/17/2004 -0500, David Blumberg wrote:
>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.

AMEN! The objective is not "equality." It is achieving the highest
possible level for each student!

Bill Hausmann

If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is TOO LOUD!

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