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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My high school had the same requirement, and it’s clear that the only reason it was mandatory was that If they had made it voluntary no one would have done it. People defending the policy need to ask themselves why, if marching band is such a valuable experience, it has to be a compulsory requirement attached to something only tangentially related. Kids taking AP English aren’t required to write for the school paper, and as others have said, you can take a theater class without having to be in the school play.

There’s only three questions here that matter: 1) what makes marching band such a uniquely valuable experience that it must be mandatory? 2) if it’s such a uniquely valuable experience, wouldn’t compulsion be unnecessary? 3) Do you think it makes the marching band better or worse to have it filled with people who don’t actually want to be there?[/quote]

Judging by the sizes of the bands in Arlington, I don't think they're full of kids who don't want to be in them. [b]The YHS and WL bands have shrunk significantly the past few years[/b]. Meanwhile, WHS' marching band has grown to be the largest.
Yorktown has what - 70ish?
WL - the largest high school in Arlington - about the same or less?
Wakefield has about 100. Not all of them are in symphonic band, and one is even on the football team.

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For bands and orchestras, at all levels, locally and across the country, it's hard to overstate the negative impact of the pandemic.[/quote]

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