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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Go ask your PTA where their funds go. I guarantee there's a line item somewhere in there for the school to buy supplies of some sort (think paper, toner, etc.). Yes, really.[/quote]

This is not a PTA thing.

This fee is for the [i]academic[/i] music [i]classes[/i], NOT the after school marching band.

The "textbooks" in music classes are the sheet music.

To use and perform music, choirs, band and orchestra are required by law to pay music licensing fees, and purchase the rights to use, perform and print the sheet music.

FCPS requires music students to purchase the text books (ie sheet music) used in their academic classes, as well as pay the music licensing fees (similar to the licensing fees and software licensing paid by fcps to use, for example, digital textbooks.)

Free and reduced students have their sheet music (ie textbooks) paid for by FCPS.

Every other music student in FCPS has to pay for their sheet music (ie textbooks) and licensing to use, print and perform the music.

No other academic class is required to pay for their own textbooks, printed handouts or software/textbook licensing.[/quote]

Do the engineering and robotics kids have to pay fees? I always thought all electives have fees associated with them, because they are...electives.[/quote]

The fee is for their text books.

Not for things they get to make, keep and take home or eat.[/quote]

You are missing the point. These are electives. And sometimes science classes have lab fees. Unless you are an immigrant or went to some schmancy private school, surely you encountered these when you were a teen, too. I definitely recall having to pay a lab fee in high school chemistry and biology, and a supplies fee in art. I never took music classes but I imagine they had fees as well. THIS. IS. NOT. NEW. NOR. IS. IT. UNIQUE. TO. FCPS.[/quote]

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