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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In such a well-funded district where band kids at our HS are required to go door-to-door asking for money from neighbors on Tag Day (and this is the biggest fundraiser, raising something like $20k), why is it that we still have to pay a $50 band fee?? We do not rent an instrument, already supplement with outside lessons, and purchased an overpriced home for this “great” district. Why do I constantly feel nickel and dimed? Anyone else annoyed? What fees are you paying for your kid’s public education?[/quote]

$50 band fee is nothing.  Go ask the Crew team how much they have to pay for Crew participation.[/quote]

Crew is not a class.

This music fee is essentially FCPS requiring the music students to purchase the physical textbooks for their graded academic music class, as well as paying for the contracts (rights) to use the textbooks required for the curriculum.

Choir, orchestra and guitar pay it too.

Music and art are the ONLY classes in FCPS that require parents to pay between $50.00-$100.00 per class in order for the students to receive the academic textbooks required to take the class.
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We paid $45 a semester last year for middle school home ec.[/quote]

Are they buying the cookbooks?

That is basically what the music fee is for... the textbooks
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It’s probably for class supplies, because they use fabric for sewing, food ingredients for cooking, etc.[/quote]

But then why are there no fees for chemistry and biology? Is it true they rarely do labs any more?[/quote]

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