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Date Posted: 20:23:36 04/28/08 Mon
Author: Tasia B
Subject: Re: 1 bad player
In reply to: Ferris 's message, "1 bad player" on 18:47:26 04/22/05 Fri

I've also had an encounter with a special needs student when I did student teaching at the middle school where I'm from. This kid wanted to play tuba in the high school marching band but couldn't play the instrument at all, and all the private lessons in the world didn't help him. So the band director and I tried many different instruments to see if any of them were easier for him to learn but he just couldn't do it. So we ended up telling him that he couldn't participate in a group with such a higher level then he was capable of (maybe in nicer terms lol) Well he was upset and his parents were upset too, and complained to the school that we were discriminating because he was a special needs kid. So in the end we had to let him in the marching band because of the school board. So we put him on axillary percussion on the side line..

So I guess my opinion on this, although I would love to remove bad players from my band, that just isn't allowed in most public high schools and middle schools. Everyone has to be treated equally in cases like that, which makes me confused because sports isn't that way, they are 'audition' based too...

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