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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Mine went through TJ. Not a requirement. But, they still had a large band for a small school. [/quote] TJ and the other schools are aiming for different things with their bands. At most schools, the marching band's enrollment is propped up by requiring concert band members to join. At TJ, they need to prop up the concert band program (since kids would rather take other classes) so they require marching band members to be in the curricular program as well. The underlying issue is that kids want to do one but not the other, and it often leads to the neglected program collapsing, which is bad for the school. (This is doubly so for TJ, since you cannot have a marching band if you don't have a concert band program. That's what keeps the director employed.) If there was a large enough group of kids passionate about both, maybe this wouldn't be a requirement.[/quote]
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