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Date Posted: 12:21:02 03/30/06 Thu
Author: Laura
Subject: Re: Marching band for gym credit
In reply to: Sarah 's message, "Marching band for gym credit" on 07:38:24 02/27/06 Mon

I think giving gym credit for marching band is a great idea. I know a lot of kids in my high school never took gym seriously with me included. We did the same thing every year and to be honest it wasn't very well done. It doesn't set a very good example when your gym teachers are telling you to do something that they can't even do. I got a lot more out of marching band than I ever got out of a gym class. For one my high school was big on marching band and we didn't have a real "band camp" like most schools have. Instead, we had our band camp at our high school and instead of having it for a week in the middle of the summer where we would forget everything that we learned, we went from August 1st Monday-Friday 8 am-noon until school started at the end of August. We had a lot of drills to learn. During that time in the summer we would get our pre-game learned as well as probably our first 2 or 3 shows of the season. We also did high stepping which in itself should be counted as a gym credit. We had to do drills of high stepping non-stop. It was very active to say the least. However, I doubt my high school would even stop and think about making marching band a gym credit because they are so obsessed with sports that they would say it doesn't involve enough activity to be considered for gym credit.

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[> Re: Marching band for gym credit -- Emma, 15:31:41 01/17/07 Wed [1]

At my High School I did not have to take gym because I was in marching band. I liked this a lot, gym was another period of the day just like band was which could have caused scheduling problems. To me band was just as athletic as other sports if not a little harder, because you have to march and play at the same time. But now i learned that my school is going back to requiring everyone to take gym which I do not agree with at all. Some students will not be able to do all the things they want in High School becuase of times the classes are offered. I think my school should go back to the old way because we get the same amount of exercise in band that we would in gym, and possibly learn more too.

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