WRITTEN BY MICHAEL MCKNIGHT
With credit to Ms. Hanock For about half a year now, VAAS has been lacking a music program, something that has had a noticeable effect on the school. For example, students have left to pursue music at other schools, there is now no outlet for musically talented students, and many of the instruments on campus have been going to waste. The music program was terminated because when course selection came around last school year, only a very small handful of students picked music courses. This did not add up to enough students to fill a teacher's complete schedule. Regarding this, Ms. Hanock said that students need to show interest in a given class. If at least 25 students show interest, then the school will work on getting that class into the schedule. Other schools do not work in this manner. For those other schools, if they don’t have enough students for a given course they will pick students out of other classes to fill it up. This makes for unhappy students in classes they don’t want to be in. If enough students just need to show interest in the class or program, we can bring it back to our school. In an interview we had with Ms. Hannock, she stated that a while back, interest in visual arts was very low so the class was removed. However, due to growing interest in visual arts it was added back. This works for other class subjects as well. If a teacher wants to add a class to VAAS, they would have to get enough student interest in order for that to happen. In conclusion, stay conscious of the special ability given to you here at VAAS, the ability of voice. This is something most people will not get to experience later in their lives but we get to enjoy that now. This is something that we should be taking full advantage of. If you want music next year sign up for music this year. |
EditorZachary Buenaventura Author
Yuliana Altamirano CategoriesArchives
June 2023
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