Random Thoughts
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A few years back, someone asked me to give private flute lessons. I thought it was hilarious, but they couldn't find anyone else north of Atlanta so I agreed. I ran into my old band director shortly thereafter and told him how odd it seemed that I would give someone private lessons.We have a form in which points are assigned to make the yearly evaluation appear more objective. 70-80?
I was just talking to one of my cousins. She was telling me about another cousin who teaches art in a public school in GA. She is scared $hitle$$ that she is going to lose her job due to cutbacks in the arts. So I hear where you are coming from. I have tenure in my profession, so I'm cool unless the college shuts down or I commit a crime. But if it gets so bad here that the public schools stop music, I could volunteer my extra time to teach violin lessons. I'm not gonna lie -- I pretty much stink as a musician, but if I am good enough to play in the church strings group, I am good enough to teach children the basics.
He didn't bat an eyelash. He said, "Just remember that on any given day you know a lot more about it than your 13-year-old student."d
I'm in a private school, so I don't even think we have any such thing as tenure.
Performing arts are part of the fine arts, so they fall under the same umbrella. No SACS-accredited school can completely eliminate them because students must have fine arts credits to graduate from high school. However, to keep the accreditation they can cut it down to one type of art--it can be a drawing/painting class or chorus or music appreciation or whatever. My school has toyed with the notion of just keeping the visual arts, but the resistance so far has been too great (thank GAWD.) The chorus program was killed 5 years ago, but I had 15 boys who sang at Christmas--11 in my class and 4 volunteers.
Ummm...the paintball program at my school has a $7,000/year budget. There is no money allocated for chorus or drama, and I'm putting on a play in a couple of months.
I didn't know that. The small private school where daughter went had chorus, drawing/painting, and a strings program. They cut out the strings program when she was in the sixth grade. The drama program consists of a teacher who does it for free with no budget because she loves doing it. The main focus at that school is sports. For example, classes would be cancelled on days when they had out-of-town sporting events to attend.
They said that it attracts new cadets. I told my drama class about that (I didn't tell them that it was the paintball program--just an "after school" program) and they thought it was atrocious. It was great motivation for them, though--they know that if they do well and validate their program, others will join and our budget will reappear.
I had a kid leave the paintball program and join my class this semester.
They said that it attracts new cadets. I told my drama class about that (I didn't tell them that it was the paintball program--just an "after school" program) and they thought it was atrocious. It was great motivation for them, though--they know that if they do well and validate their program, others will join and our budget will reappear.
I had a kid leave the paintball program and join my class this semester.
I can understand where a military school might not be using it's drama classes to attract new cadets.
(*snort*)
New brochure: Your son can sing! He can dance! He can ACT.
yep---it's not our target demographic.
Don't ask about our drama department and we won't tell you anything. :funn:
