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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My understanding is that this sort of change is based on enrollment.  So if people drop band/orchestra/chorus and there are not a certain number of students, they combine.[/quote]

This is the correct answer. The comments about the salaries of people in central office are inaccurate. Schools receive allocations for teaching positions based on enrollment. If the school’s enrollment drops and kids are not signing up for a particular class, things like this happen. The principal decides where the teaching positions are allocated. If enrollment is low in the band class and they keep staffing the same in that area, it means other classes will have enormously large class sizes. [/quote]

+1  Also, some principals are more supportive of music than others. They might allocate only enough salary to pay one instrumental music teacher so the school has to combine groups and allocate the savings to another area that the principal believes is more important. [/quote]

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