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[quote=Anonymous]I don't know how any other school teaches music. I will say that Jazz Band, Marching Band, and specialized choirs at my HS in the 80's were all after school activities with no grades. They were treated like sports. We had our own competitions and activities, it was great, but we were not graded.

The school should offer different levels of band and choir at the school that are graded but adding additional music classes as after school activities strikes me as wrong. And I ahve never agreed with kids in a certain band being forced to participate in marching band. Marching band is it's own activity and should be treated like a sport. Kids should join because they want to and should not be required to participate in order to participate in the highest-level band. Maybe that means a smaller marching band, but it would be full of kids who want to be in marching band. And I know that this is not unique to this area, family members in different states have had the same issue with marching band. 
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