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[quote=Anonymous]I don’t think the children minds it. It’s really all the parents. If a child forgets her recorder, I usually have a small bin where they can take one and move on. In every class, there will be at least a third that are chewers and will bite their recorder to death. So those who forget their recorders will certainly eventually get one that is chewed to death. They don’t usually care about teeth marks and straight into the mouth they go as long as they don’t smell bad. So I usually make sure they are clean and run them in the dishwasher. But no child really cares about the teethmarks and some kids will leave more teethmarks for the next child! The story is different if the kids are bringing home the loaners. I will get angry parents bla bla so I just forbid to let them go home with the child. No feathers are ruffled this way!

An ex home room teacher that had to teach recorder and thank goodness no more!

P/s : as for donations. Yes. Please do give them. Like pp, sometimes we mix and match the parts if for example a child broke theirs in half or chew the end part or gave it to the dog (it happens!!) but not chew the mouthpiece. So your donation really helps. Whilst schools have meagre budgets, there are also many needy children and times are hard. So please don’t throw them away. [/quote]

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