Dear Colleagues,
The Waldorf School of Atlanta pays for the group violin and cello classes grades
3, 4, and 5 and also for our middle school string chamber orchestra. Parents pay
the teachers privately for their private individual lessons. This year's 6th
grade also knows they are expected to take private lessons through grade 8. They
also are free to change instruments at this stage, but most have continued on
strings except for a student who is taking recorder lessons and another one on
saxophone.
Was good to hear how others handle it.
Eleanor Winship
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> From: "Jason Child" <jachild@...>
> Date: 2006/03/28 Tue AM 10:08:19 EST
> To: anawme@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [anawme] Paying for instrumental music?
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> Dear colleagues,
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> Thanks for your responses about scheduling instrumental music. Now
> I'm wondering how your school pays for instrumental music.
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> For the past few years, Emerson WS hasn't been offering instrumental
> music beyond strings in the 4th grade. This year we added strings
> lessons for 5th and we'll continue adding each year through the
> middle school years, with the new option of changing to a wind
> instrument in 6th grade.
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> The college of teachers here is leaning toward paying for the initial
> year of strings lessons- 4th grade- but then collecting an annual fee
> (probably about $250 per student) in order to continue lessons in
> 5th - 8th grade. The touchy thing for me is that I am suggesting
> that playing some instrument is compulsory through 8th grade. That
> means we're charging extra for compulsory lessons.
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> How does your school handle the cost of bringing in specialists for
> instrumental lessons?
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> Thanks for your advice!
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> Jason Child
> Emerson Waldorf School
> Chapel Hill, NC
> 919-967-1858 x. 26 (school)
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