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Well, there isn't much you can do, unfortunately. Its a shame that it comes down to this; good teachers get cut first because someone is older then them.

Last year, my band director's time was going to be cut from full 6/7 to part 3/7. As were a lot of directors and band programs in town. so, we went out and rallied for prop 100, which was supposed to raise taxes by about a penny so that we can better fund our schools and safety organizatiosn(cops, fire, etc). Our band and another, as well as a few members of various other bands, got together at an intersection towards the center of town and blasted out our fight songs, stands tunes and shows. We had band wars with the other school, our rival school. They stood on one corner, us on the other. Members from other bands and a few members of oru two bands held signs and we all wore stickers saying "save the music, vote yes for prop 100." We did that for 2-3 hours. for a last hoorah, we gathered on the corner my school was at and had both schools dms conduct a stands tune both bands had, crazy train. It was fun, and prop 100 passed(i think). While we still get threats, they aren't as common, which is good.

yeah well its not yet official till they see if they pass the thing for the cuts on school so we're still not sure if he'll have to leave, or be able to stay, and worse thing is is that we've been raising money to go to wisonsin, and if he's not teaching then we won't be able to go on the trip

My band teacher is this close |-| to being gone because of this, she just got married, we're about to have our Spring Concert, and she's about to have a baby, if that happens, out Concert will be cut off, the father of the baby she's about to have won't hardly be able to see his daddy because she'll have to wait a few years until he's old enough to be on his own, so yea, thanks a freggin lot government, I know your in the dumps, but really? I'm about to lose it...

I know, right?

I already know what I will write my thesis on when I'm in college to be a band director: the affect music has on children. (and I'm onl a junior in hgih school haha)

I've noticed that students who have had some kind of experience in music and art at younger ages are better performing in other subjects. For example, not a single kid in the Honor Society at my school isn't in a music class, whether it be choir, musical theatre, band or orchestra.

Once in band class, towards the end of the year, we were playing this trivia game. Our bd would say soemthin and we would have to answer the question. He would stuff like "257 x 541" or "what is the capital of New Jersey", even stuff such as the definition of "odiously". It was amazing how quick we would get it.
We played the same game once when he subbed for my english class. It wasn't even a challenge for the handful of band kids. Either the others would get it wrong or not even start writing it up when we were checking if it was right.

At our school the band went from a budget of 2000 dollars to about 100 dollars in like 4 years, so we have to raise all our money to be able to go to festivals which cost 500 and trips and what not so thats our story luckily our school requires a fine art credit to graduate which means piano and guitar are taken which means our fine arts teachers are fairly safe cause if they got rid of them kids wouldn't be graduating

Last year our entire band program WAS cut out.

All of the band geeks were FREAKING out.

They managaed to scrape enough money to let us keep it, but only barely.

This year we have had to do ALOT of fundraisers so we can keep it agai next year....

stupid idiotic gov cutting band.

jeez i know what you mean. my band director just had his second kid about 3 months ago. and if he loses his job he's going to have to move to find another job.