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Music education not pushed aside for Christmas programs

By Harold Reutter
harold.reutter@theindependent.com
Published: Friday, November 6, 2009 8:04 PM CST
If it's early November, then grade school students must be working on Christmas music.

That is not a matter of the Grand Island Public Schools' music teachers willfully ignoring the calendar, a la retailers who start displaying Halloween candy shortly after Labor Day and who then begin Christmas promotions well before Thanksgiving.

Dan Prickett, who teaches vocal music at Seedling Mile and Starr elementary schools, said the Christmas rehearsals are a matter of simple math.

Prickett said he has third-, fourth- and fifth-graders for 30 minutes per class, every other day, while he has kindergarten through second-grade students for just 25 minutes per class, also every other day.  Full Story

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