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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why, why, why can't we just work on 26 strong high schools that all offer a variety of leveled work? Why can't all students just go to their zoned school? What if we used all of this money from their "Research," buses, program procurement etc, to add more teachers to the county and reduce the size of classes? Why does everyone need a program? [/quote]

Because in this county, like everywhere else, the rich hoard the good stuff. If you are a kid who goes to predominantly poor school and you want to take advanced physics or be in a stellar symphony, you just can’t, because there aren’t enough other kids like you at your school. Specialized programs help those kids.[/quote]

You have to private pay for the stellar orchestra.  It sucks not having the same opportunities.  [/quote]

You don’t have to private pay for the stellar orchestra. Frost, Wootton, Takoma Park kids all take their school orchestra classes for free. Do many of them also pay to be in MCYO and take lessons? Yes, but their school experience is free and has more diversity than their paid youth orchestra.[/quote]

You just proved the point.  The discussion is about our kids who are NOT at those schools and the lack of offerings at our school.  Those kids are challenged in a stellar orchestra, but if you are MCYO or PVYO, you are light years ahead of your school orchestra.  That is the issue.  MCYO and PVYO offer low-income financial help but few kids take them up on it.  It's too bad as they are amazing experiences many of our kids cannot replicate at school.  So, YES, we do have to private pay to get quality music programs.[/quote]

It's the students that take private lessons and play in additional orchestras that make the public school orchestras at Frost, Wootton, Blair, and Takoma Park the outstanding public programs that they are.[/quote]

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