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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m amazed that these DCPS elementary schools have orchestra and band. My kids go to Hearst and Deal, and we have nothing. A school musical every year, but no instruction in musical instruments (except maybe drums in music class?) and no opportunities to play in an ensemble. Does it just depend on the teachers, or do some schools get extra money for these programs through grants? [/quote]

Yes, some schools get grants, some allocate funds for music.  What DCPS and DCPCS don't do is require schools to offer instrumental music instruction across the board at any level. Nothing is standardized or too serious. Compare to MoCo, Arlington and Fairfax, where almost all by-right schools offer serious instrumental music instruction daily at school from the upper elementary grades on up, and weep.  So lame.[/quote]

Yeah, this is what nobody is mentioning. As a whole, DCPS is awful for music education. You might find a particular school or teacher that is great, but it's probably entirely contingent on a temporary grant and the will of one or two people. If music education is really important to you, you'll likely end up at either DCYOP, Levine, a private school, or the suburbs. We've made do with a combo of private instruction and private school after leaving one of the schools that was cited in the thread as "good."[/quote]

+1.  So true.  A music teacher here and there or exposure to an instrument at a few random schools is not a serious music program like what they have across the board in the burbs.
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Sure. But most serious music students seem to go to DC youth orch or Levine, which seem far superior to an average suburban program?[/quote]

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