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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Tough titties to those of you who balk at your kid having to do marching band. It is a way to ensure that kids are committed to both bands. Many kids think band is something they can skip out on. If you're serious about symphonic band, you would do marching band. Marching band is treated like a varsity sport. It requires mandatory commitment. I think what the previous WL band director did was brilliant! Win-win because both bands were great![/quote] Except we don't do this for anything else. Kids can take AP calculus without being on the math team, AP physics without being on the robotics team, [b]why this major extracurricular requirement for advanced band when there is nothing analogous for anything else?[/b] What is worst that could happen -- school wouldn't have a marching band? If not enough kids want to do it, maybe that is a fine outcome. [/quote] Highest level school orchestras can have similar requirements, in that they meet outside of school hours. The time commitment is not nearly the same, however.[/quote] Exactly it is not nearly the same. Why ask more of band kids? It seems arbitrary. [/quote] Extra concert/symphonic band/symphony practices are akin to homework for other classes. Marching band is one credit hour and has many benefits, whether anti-banders believe it or not.[/quote] OP here, the issue isn't that marching band has benefits - I am sure it does. The issue is that DC is already part of a regional orchestra that also has benefits and doesn't want to give that up (it is 4 hours of practice each Saturday) so now she can't participate in the appropriate level of school band. I talked to her again, she is just going to skip school band altogether. She may decide to add another instrument at some point but she would prefer to do that via private lessons and independent practice instead of a lower-level school band where she is stuck playing music she doesn't like. [/quote]
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