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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]$hitcan. Immediately. All 3 of them. [/quote]

awwww. [b]that's a waste[/b]. If they can still be used, I would pass them on. Any elementary kid still needs them and most are hardly used. My kids stopped right after they got their belts.

We gave it back to our school who gladly took it back and will give free to any kid who couldn't/didn't want to pay for a new one. Apparently many families (even the affluent ones) don't want to pay for one even if it means getting one used previously by another child. We ran ours in the dishwasher so it should be pretty good. I know it feels yucky but after all when they come to middle school, you either rent one and those have also been played by others too! Band instruments are even worse because you can't put them in the dishwasher![/quote]

Nope.  It's a service to humanity.  No one wants to hear a kid play a recorder.  No one.  [/quote]

But it is a requirement. So even if you throw yours away, another kid to just have their hands on one as part of school. So why not pass it on. I see nothing wrong if you get a used recorder if you don’t want a new one. (and wash it). Like said above, when you come to a clarinet or a sax, not everyone will buy a brand new one. I am all for saving less plastic and have one only to throw it away. I will pass it on. My kids didn’t doodle on their case and wrote their name very neatly. Also crossing it out was easy. They were also not big chewers so there are some marks from teeth as they learn to use it but no overly hungrily chewed (which is not the correct way of playing it if you keep chewing on your recorder). It was really presentable and something my own kid would use if we didn’t have any money to spend.

Our school is in a fairly wealthy area but has a good local program. The took time to allow kids at the end of the year to put their backpacks, pen cases and other things if parents want to help gift to help another family out. They also have a lesson to teach kids on how to care for their things, not take things for granted and how things could help another family in need. Generally not taught in our previous school which was in an even less affluent neighborhood. There, these kids just couldn’t care less of the things they got. Chromebooks never got cared for, the lost and found was a big big heap and kids just left their coats everywhere and didn’t even bother to care for their things.

But i digress….. it’s good we could have the chance to reuse a recorder and everything else. It’s better than recycling as plastics and garbage.[/quote]

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