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[quote=Anonymous][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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FCPS usually offers a minimum of 4 choirs at the school:

Some sort of freshman/open enrollment choir, usually soprano,  2nd soprano, alto voices

Some sort of open enrollment mens choir for tenr, baritone, bass voices

Some sort of audition required soprano, second soprano, alto choir

Some sort of audition required mixed choir of soprano, 2nd soprano, alto, tenor 1, tenor 2, baritone and bass voices.

Usually, the audition based mixed choir is the top choir that does e tra performances,  but at some FCPS with less developed male singers, the female audition choir is the top choir.

Some FCPS have additional ensembles for things like show choir/musical theater, or other performance groups.

When those choirs are for credit, they are held during the school day.

When they are after school extracurricular activities, there is no credit.

It is highly unusual to give students credit for their atfter school music activity.

This might be the only school that does this.

They are probably breakung some district policy, that has nothing to do with DEI.[/quote]

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