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[quote=Anonymous]Some form of musical class was required at my kid's MS.  They either had to sign up for band, guitar, or chorus.  Unfortunately, once you picked your option in 6th grade, there was no switching except going from guitar/band to chorus.  You couldn't go from guitar to band or chorus to either instrument.

Neither kid was interested in learning a musical instrument and neither can carry a tune.  My son wanted to learn percussion, but too many kids picked it, so he was one of the ones selected for his second choice instrument, which was trumpet.  He hated it.  I hated it.  He practiced some, but not as much as was required.  I didn't force it.  I signed off on all of his practice sheets at once and he just wrote the dates & times in before turning them in.  I was fine with this.  My daughter started off in guitar, but after struggling all of 6th grade because of her short, stubby fingers, she switched to chorus in 7th grade.  The chorus teacher and I had a good laugh about it at back to school night when I apologized to her about my daughter's voice.  She was very much anti-forcing kids to take a music class.

I'd have rather they just let them pick a specialized art or tech class over forced music.  When I was in MS, we were able to pick from the musical options or art options like watercolors, pottery, oil on canvas, simple coding, etc.   [/quote]

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