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Date Posted: 11:41:19 03/10/06 Fri
Author: Erika
Subject: Re: Marching band for gym credit
In reply to: Sarah 's message, "Marching band for gym credit" on 07:38:24 02/27/06 Mon

I agree with everyone else and believe that members of the marching band should receive gym credit because of their participation in the marching band. First of all I know how hard many marching bands work. My high school marching band had a month long camp in the summer which we called two-a-days. These practices required a great amount of energy and patience. Marching band required lots of time and you had to be willing to work hard in order to be a part of it. Marching band basically took over most of our summer and first semester of school. Yes, we all did it for fun but it required a lot of work, time, and energy. Also, compared to my gym classes in high school I learned so much more and worked so much harder in the marching band than I did in my gym classes. There were days when my gym teacher just did not feel like doing anything so we just had a study hall or listened to music. There was never a day in marching band when our director just felt like doing nothing and we had a free day. I believe that it is a good idea to have marching band members receive their gym credit for their participation in marching band.

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[> Re: Marching band for gym credit -- Derek, 09:51:15 03/23/06 Thu [1]

You bring those skinny little soccer players, tennis players, or basketball players out on the feild and have them run around the field with percussion instruments, tubas, or bari saxes: See if THEY can do it -- and make sure they PLAY IN TUNE while playing every single note with perfect tone, pitch, rhythm, and style!!!!! (notice I never mentioned the football players...)

My point is simple. What we do on the feild during half time is at least ten and a half times more complicated than what the athletes are doing. Granted, it takes skill to run a touchdown, shoot a free-throw, or kick a ball across the field -- but we have to play various instruments, think about so many little details, AND march around the field without getting out of breath. Because of all the basic things we need to do just to survive out there on the field, we should at least get 1 credit hour towards gym class - maybe 7.

Musicians never get enough credit for marching in a band. I bet those jocks can't even tell you how to march around a corner without falling apart --- "Hey man, what's a straight line do when it gits around a corner....?"

Whether or not this will benefit the marching band is hard to say. If the school is small enough that it needs more people in the marching band, than it'll probably be a good idea to offer credit for marching band. If it's a bigger school, then I don't know why we'd even bother letting other people in just to get a gym credit out of the way.

Besides, I think people in the marching band should be concert band memebers only. If the school keeps it that way and just wants to give the music students extra gym credit, that's great; but I wouldn't necessarily open it up to the entire school.

Hope that helps... I think it's a great idea to get extra credit for marching, but I'd be a little hesitant opening it up to the entire student population for fear of getting people that aren't interested in marching or music because they just want the credit.

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