Klarinet Archive - Posting 000076.txt from 2006/11

From: "Dee Flint" <deeflint01@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Disgusted, need to vent
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 08:08:58 -0500


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From: "Robert Howe" <arehow@-----.net>
To: <klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2006 5:57 AM
Subject: [kl] Disgusted, need to vent

>A parent might end the child's lessons out of schedule frustration. I am a
> widower with three kids at home and another in college. All play or want
> to
> play, and all could benefit from, and would enjoy, music lessons. But I
> have no time to take the 5 year old to violin school, nor the 12 and 17 to
> trombone and cornet lessons. It makes my life easier that they don't have
> lessons, as much as I wish that they could.
>
> Good luck
>
> Robert Howe
>

Surely for the 12 and 17 year olds there are other means of transportation
that could be arranged. My mother didn't drive and my father worked all the
time. Yet all five of us kids found ways to get to the activities we really
wanted to participate in.