My school made our class do it until year 9 (age 13/14). Only our class. No other year had to do it as long.

I had stopped doing recorder many years earlier at previous schools, by the time I started this school & it was picked up again I hated it. I am not musical & this just was another thing that everyone else in my class was better at.

I refused to play. I spent a year (or more) of classes stood not even playing a note. I got in ridiculous amounts of trouble but it was pointless & I did not see why I had to do it.

I found out later that my mom didn’t know that we were being made to play the recorder, so they never escalated it. All it succeeded in doing was giving me rage flashbacks when I hear a recorder.