Band/Choir Policies

Parents are welcome and encouraged to attend whenever they are visiting.

If your presence in band (choir), for any reason, starts to limit the group’s achievements you will receive specific requirements or advice from the director, which, if met, or followed will preserve an "A". This may include a practice requirement on a specific number or aspect of playing, an attendance stipulation, or some other agreement with the director.

All members are expected to be present at each concert. Exceptions will only be made for extreme emergencies. These should be arranged for as far in advance as possible. Birthdays, a visit from Aunt Matilda, a ball game, or a chance to go to Disneyland are NOT emergencies. Headaches , sprained joints, and other nonfatal or noncommunicable ailments are also NOT reasons to miss a concert.

Some reasons that I may accept are: your death, the death of a family member or close friend, total incapacitation by accident or disease, or for the finding of your father who has been missing at sea for the last 6 years and who was presumed dead. In that case I might send him a special invitation to hear his son or daughter play a concert with our group. We will dedicate the concert to him as a welcoming gesture on his return to civilization!