Klarinet Archive - Posting 001111.txt from 2004/03

From: "Rupert Kahn" <Rupert.Kahn@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] not just the music department
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 07:43:22 -0500

Bill Hausman Quoted and responded to Dave Blumberg's post:

DB:"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."

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

Maybe I've misunderstood Bill Hausman's and Dave Blumberg's posts here but
the tone stikes me as extremely negative. In the real world, people with
sight problems have strategies for working round their disabilities. This
may be as basic as turning up early or skipping breaks to take the extra
time needed to look at parts. Is it really the job of schools to pretend
that these strategies aren't realistic and practical. As for looking at
the director that is a different issue requiring different levels of
perception I would think. But it seems typical of the problems that many
disabled people face that if they draw attention to a problem in one area
people start riffing on all the other problems that might follow from their
disability.

It remind me of the folk tale the six sillies, where everyone weeps for the
dire consequences that might follow from a small known risk, instead of
dealing with it when it first arises.

I mean really, its not as if talented blind and partially sighted musicians
are unheard of, did Stevie Wonder ever do a sightreading test.

Rupert Kahn
Derbyshire
Wondering at some peoples shortsightedness.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Hausmann" <bhausmann1@-----.net>
To: <klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: 19 March 2004 11:34
Subject: RE: [kl] not just the music department

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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