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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When people criticize music education and block scheduling, and have data to back it up, they are generally looking at a 4x4 schedule.  4 classes per semester times 2 semesters a year, and not an A day/ B day schedule. So, kids either need to sign up for a double block-- one each semester, or only play one semester a year. That is a problem.  But not a problem with the A/B or A/B/ Anxhor day scheduling in FCPS.

Of course, if your kid wants to make significant progress in their instrument, they do have to practice outside of class. And nothing about a block schedule keeps my kids from practicing a half hour a night, 5-6 days a week. And they would certainly have to practice a lot more if they were serious musicians. Like almost anything, a big piece of succeeding at something is putting in the practice time of class and formal lessons.  [/quote]

This isn't just about kids practicing their instruments. It's about bands/orchestras/choirs practicing together.[/quote]

Which they have more time to do each week, plus the ability to play through an entire program, under a block schedule. [/quote]

Problem with your line of argument is music teachers generally abhor block scheduling. [/quote]

Not true; in the FCPS schools that went to block scheduling (MS and HS) a number of years ago, music teachers (and science) were the strongest advocates of implementing block scheduling.  [/quote]

At our school, the band/orchestra/chorus teachers were big advocates [u]until[/u] they got the block schedule.  Now they really don't like it at all.  Someone in a prior post said that there is 'more time' and that isn't true: the actual amount of time in class work out to be very close to a the time allotment in a traditional schedule over a two week period.  Anyway, our music teachers really don't like the block schedule now that they have it for many of the reasons listed by other posters.[/quote]

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