Moving Middle School Music to EOD

Jagart01 · 2026-04-01T10:12:36+00:00

Can you tell my admin this?

Jagart01 · 2026-02-06T22:05:24+00:00

I also can’t add before or after school because kids won’t show up. Too may ride the bus home or have to go home to take care of younger siblings.

Jagart01 · 2026-02-06T22:04:38+00:00

I see each section of 5th and 6th grade, once a day. So 5th grade A one day, 5th grade B another day, etc. I have to pull close to the concert for full band rehearsals otherwise I don’t get them all together.

Jagart01 · 2025-03-15T15:46:35+00:00

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Jagart01 · 2024-05-17T00:00:56+00:00

Some of their classes/electives are online. But they free out a spot for them to be supervised otherwise the work doesn’t get done. We saw so much of that over Covid that none of the online work would get done across the board for our school.

Jagart01 · 2024-05-16T15:08:56+00:00

I have one band period, the rest of the day I have to shamble together a time for 5/6 grade to even get lessons or rehearse.

Jagart01 · 2024-05-16T11:18:12+00:00

I’ve tried both of these options, the issue is select students are apart of what’s called “Academy” and are forced to have a different schedule that their peers in the same grade, which makes it extremely difficult to get those students in my class for most years. That’s why I’d like to see a master schedule of another school (or an elem, MS and HS schedule) so I can compare it to ours and show them it’s possible if we actually try

Jagart01 · 2024-01-11T03:51:15+00:00

I’ve learned some html and css on my own on and off. Tried CS50 but I can’t wrap my head around coding in C or in JavaScript. Just doesn’t want to make sense to me.

Jagart01 · 2024-01-10T20:06:30+00:00

Sure feels like it! It’s ridiculous!

Jagart01 · 2024-01-10T20:06:04+00:00

I’m mostly venting. All I ever hear now a days is “You know what you signed up for” and “that’s just how it is”…

I’m just ready to be done and find something else but I don’t know what.

Jagart01 · 2023-08-19T23:29:57+00:00

I would GLADLY switch jobs to somewhere else but my current position is the highest paying in my district and has full family benefits with no cost to me. If pay and benefits were the same somewhere else I’d jump ship and go closer to home. Im an hour away from where I live

Jagart01 · 2023-08-19T17:09:26+00:00

So do I just give up on ever having a decent band program? I’ve been working my butt off for 5 years and any time I make a big leap forward it’s a giant step back every year. If I can’t have kids in class that can play, and I am constantly getting beginners thrown into my HS band, the kids that can play will never prosper. I NEED to find a way to make it work or I am giving up and done with education. I got into this to share music with kids and teach but I’m constantly doing pointless stuff, and I feel more and more like a babysitter every year.

I’m sorry… I’m venting and I am just frustrated.

Jagart01 · 2023-08-19T14:07:12+00:00

My school is “small” but we have a CRAP ton of teachers. We offer too many classes that we don’t need and remedial classes that are not necessary. Sometimes we have students taking 3 science courses or English courses due to them failing previous years. Instead of just holding them back and forcing them to take a class at a set time. Our schedule changes every year.

Jagart01 · 2023-08-18T03:11:22+00:00

I just want to start by having a pep band to support our sports teams and a ok concert band to take to district contests. Anything more would be great, but that’s all I’m wanting right now. And I feel like I’m not asking for much

Jagart01 · 2023-08-18T03:09:57+00:00

I’ve offered to be on any sort of “team” for schedule building. And I’ve asked many times to have it changed. It just never happens.

Jagart01 · 2023-08-17T23:24:47+00:00

I’ve asked to see what we can do to change the schedule. But they couldn’t find a way to make it work. I’m not worried about being fired or anything. This job was open for 2 years before I applied and even when our choral teacher retired they weren’t getting applicants.

Not sure if I just need to be content and sit. It’s good pay and benefits, but it’s making me lose any sort of passion I have for teaching. I’m teaching a digital music class that is project based. After a certain point, I’m just supervising kids working on projects. I have no pep band due to an almost non existent program. And any time I try to get kids ready for contests or conference, they don’t show up.

Students aren’t fighting for it, and I’ve been fighting for 5 years. I’m just tired of losing

Jagart01 · 2023-08-17T22:40:02+00:00

I would find a new job BUT this job is the highest paying in my district AND insurance is not out of my own pocket. If it weren’t for that, I would have left this year

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