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 Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2007 11:16 am
ok heres the thing - my dad used to be this big shot band director like 5-ish years ago. While he was director, he taught the woman who would become my band director. So now that she's my band director she expects me to be this huge-o awesome incredible musical flute-playing genius. but i'm not. so she's super hard on me and gets mad at me over every little thing and its not fair cuz she never gets mad at anybody else over the stuff she gets mad at mw about! and i can't help that im not perfect like my dad wasso shes always being unnessessarily mean to me just cuz im not my dad and it's not fair!! help...
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Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2007 1:58 pm
have you told your dad about the situation? o_O;
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Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2007 8:56 pm
ummmmmm... 0o'''''''''''''''''''''''
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Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2007 9:37 am
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Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2008 1:28 am
You should tell her straight-- "Look, I'm not as good as you think I am."
If she still gets on your case, tell your parents.
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Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2008 9:28 am
i should. but then she'd be all like whatever! and start bein meaner. i know her that well. and dont wanna quit! i luv band. i hate my band director. thankx anyway tho.
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Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2008 11:53 pm
play everything backwards,
sounds like she'd notice.
when she looks at u funny, then u know its working.
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Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 11:02 am
My band teacher had a baton that he told us about every year: "THis baton was a gift from one of my friends back in college and it was forty dollars, (the price he told us raised every year,) and I don't want you touiching it because you'll break it."
So we have lunch during our band hour, so we snuck into the room and replaced his baton with a stick or licorice and left an actual cut-and-paste random note that said "If you ever want to see your precious baton again, you have to dance the macarena while singing the hokey pokey. Now dance minion, dance!"
And the funniest part: he did it.
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Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2008 3:15 pm
yorkielover56 ok heres the thing - my dad used to be this big shot band director like 5-ish years ago. While he was director, he taught the woman who would become my band director. So now that she's my band director she expects me to be this huge-o awesome incredible musical flute-playing genius. but i'm not. so she's super hard on me and gets mad at me over every little thing and its not fair cuz she never gets mad at anybody else over the stuff she gets mad at mw about! and i can't help that im not perfect like my dad wasso shes always being unnessessarily mean to me just cuz im not my dad and it's not fair!! help... Okay, I'll give you a little secret to how music teachers work (I'm a music teacher myself, so I'm not kidding on this). Music teachers listen to band parents. Have your father cut her an email stating that you are not your father, and you work at an entirely different pace than what she is expecting of you. Yes, you do have an advantage that your father is musically inclined, but for all I know, he could be too busy to give you private tutoring on the flute. Or he is familiar with the flute, but cannot help with the more advanced aspects of playing (like I, a string specialist, can help a beginner to make a sound out of the blasted thing, but I can't play a darn after that). Since your teacher respects your father, she should be inclined to listen to what he has to say.
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Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2008 3:28 pm
Javinus yorkielover56 ok heres the thing - my dad used to be this big shot band director like 5-ish years ago. While he was director, he taught the woman who would become my band director. So now that she's my band director she expects me to be this huge-o awesome incredible musical flute-playing genius. but i'm not. so she's super hard on me and gets mad at me over every little thing and its not fair cuz she never gets mad at anybody else over the stuff she gets mad at mw about! and i can't help that im not perfect like my dad wasso shes always being unnessessarily mean to me just cuz im not my dad and it's not fair!! help... Okay, I'll give you a little secret to how music teachers work (I'm a music teacher myself, so I'm not kidding on this). Music teachers listen to band parents. Have your father cut her an email stating that you are not your father, and you work at an entirely different pace than what she is expecting of you. Yes, you do have an advantage that your father is musically inclined, but for all I know, he could be too busy to give you private tutoring on the flute. Or he is familiar with the flute, but cannot help with the more advanced aspects of playing (like I, a string specialist, can help a beginner to make a sound out of the blasted thing, but I can't play a darn after that). Since your teacher respects your father, she should be inclined to listen to what he has to say. this actually makes the most sence to me
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Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 6:38 pm
Why thank you.
My family actually had to deal with situations very similar to this one when my two younger sisters and I were still in school (two of the three of us have graduated by now).
Me, being a natural at studies, aced all my classes. My sisters, usually getting many of the same teachers I had, were expected to perform the same. Every year, my father had to write a note to them explaining that they are not me and should not be expected to perform at the same caliber. Once that was done, the only thing that we worried about was the teachers mixing all our names up since we look so similar.
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