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ivieiinaa nusseu, wno teacnes chorus agreed. “Music classes need their own space,” she said. She added that the elementary school schedule did not allow enough time to meet state standards for music education.
“The noise level in the gym is phenominal,” she said. “You wouldn’t put history or English on the stage,” she noted. She said that the art teacher had expected to have space on the stage, and when she had rehearsals for last week’s concert the art teacher was “irate. It will be worse next year. The children are being ripped off. Several people think music is not as important as academics, but no one can claim that academics decline because children spend too much time studying music.”
Hand teacher Wendy Whitford agreed saying it would be better to drop music than to expect it to be taught on the stage while physical education classes are taught in the gym. She said 1>0 percent of the children have indicated they want to continue studying music by taking either band or chorus. “If they are unable to learn, they may no longer want to learn," she said.
She later said that to teach band on the stage she would need $2,000 for cabinets to store school owned instruments and $(5,000 for a six-section band shell to direct the sound away from the gym.
Parent Holly May said she wanted to thank the teachers for “doing an admirable job under adverse conditions.” She asked if the schools would fund “a couple of temporary buildings, so we don’t end up with this mess on the stage.”
Molly Hobson said the small room, one half of the former teachers’ lounge, that she uses for her
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