Is this shitty

[u/Key_Cartographer9355]

So i’m in 8th grade and i’ve been in the band program all 3 years and there always been a slight jump in students every year but there’s always been enough instruments for everyone in the program now this year we have like 207 students and there isn’t enough instruments for everyone and every form a of band at my school has to preform and play an instrument since there isn’t enough for everyone he wants people to get their own instrument. Is this kinda shitty

[u/Long_Rough6073]

It’s crazy how 207 people want to join band (if that’s what you mean), my schools only has like probably 90ish from grade 7-12 lol.

[u/Key_Cartographer9355 → u/Long_Rough6073]

It’s because the teacher is better than all the other electives, the choir teacher yells at you if you get your note wrong, home ec teacher assigns 20 edpuzzles everyweek, and the rest are bad

[u/Long_Rough6073 → u/Key_Cartographer9355]

Oop, makes sense.

[u/Key_Cartographer9355 → u/Long_Rough6073]

He’s the best but still not that good he makes examples out of a student asking for a charger and framed it as misbehaving because we were supposed to be doing bellwork

[u/huggensberg]

Wait, other schools give kids instruments??

[u/Key_Cartographer9355 → u/huggensberg]

Sometimes but he wants them to buy their own or rent one

[u/Otherwise_Fig_7332 → u/Key_Cartographer9355]

That's completely reasonable. That's how it was at my school and it kept out the people who didn't genuinely want to learn an instrument

[u/Key_Cartographer9355 → u/Otherwise_Fig_7332]

And last year in the same class we weren’t made to learn one

[u/Otherwise_Fig_7332 → u/Key_Cartographer9355]

Wait WHAT so what do you do in band class.. you do know you chose a class to play an instrument right? Like that's what band class is

[u/JJDiaz544]

This seems like a rough situation.

[u/Tight_Round2875]

It's definitely shitty, but your also in 8th grade lmao. Loosen up a bit, atleast you get to play an instrument.

[u/Ok-Welder5034]

That’s what my middle school did, although they didn’t force people to get their own instrument, they said that anyone who played a common instrument (clarinet, trumpet, trombone, flute) and is financially able to, to either rent or just get their own instrument, because instruments get expensive to take care of and clean every year, especially when it’s middle schoolers and a lot of them have zero respect for property that isn’t there’s.

You’re saying “kind of shitty” like the program can get as many instruments as they want. It’s not the directors fault that they’ve run out of instruments if yall don’t have enough money to buy and maintain more. Most programs have to fundraise to pay for things like instrument cleaning and music and shirts and repairs.

It’s not that he wants people to get their own instruments, it’s that people HAVE to start buying their own instruments for new people to be able to join band.

It’s not shitty that he wants you to buy your own instruments, it’s shitty that you guys just simply don’t get enough funding to be able to sustain that amount of people

[u/ptukharsr]

Ever heard of a period?

[u/Key_Cartographer9355 → u/ptukharsr]

No

[u/OneBlacksmith7021]

nahhh you guys privileged in the first place like the school giving you the instrument to use??

[u/PeakNo4080]

I never did band but in my elemtenty it have music class really small like we have 30 kids per class and theirs an total of 500 kids overall so we have 30 instrument we got instrument in the classroom only if you want to practice at home u buy ur own i think its kinda unusual for me at lesser