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Post by triplettDIDDLE » Sat Dec 13, 2003 10:53 pm

go ahead and call me triplett, it is my name after all., but ya, i think he is, and were seperate from la unified, were in the Centinela Valley Unified High School District. pretty small, 4 schools, totalling about 8000 students, ours with about 3500

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Post by Spyder » Wed Dec 17, 2003 9:31 am

thats about the size of our schools..... all 2 of em
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Post by sexydrummerchic » Wed Dec 17, 2003 3:50 pm

ok well my line charges 600$ for winterline, isnt that insane????

oh yeah plus another 500$ if you are in wind ensamble!
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Post by Spyder » Wed Dec 17, 2003 4:48 pm

Uh.... yes that's insane... plus 500 more for wind ensemble? where are you from man?
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Post by sexydrummerchic » Wed Dec 17, 2003 9:03 pm

so cal where they think money grows on trees, and bu the way im a girl!!!
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Post by hernandez » Wed Dec 17, 2003 9:30 pm

At my school (loara) they charge close to $2000 for the whole year and that takes care for everything from winterline,marching band,wind ensamble,and other various things
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Post by sexydrummerchic » Thu Dec 18, 2003 6:52 am

WOW!!!! put us to shame, sorry about all that!!
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Post by loserface » Thu Dec 18, 2003 3:23 pm

whoa, what's with schools in the garden grove district charging fees?! the principal at gghs told us that no one in the ggusd was allowed to do so because of the risk of being sued [i don't understand that, though]. so we weren't allowed to charge a cent. students had to get our own uniforms and the battery had to get their own sticks, but if you couldn't afford it, the boosters would pay. boosters also paid for busses since we never had enough parents to drive everyone. now i can't figure out if the district just doesn't like our band director [other things have been denied to us and granted to other schools] or if the principal, once again, lied to us.
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Post by sexydrummerchic » Thu Dec 18, 2003 6:19 pm

i know about all that but that is what they charge and they havent been sued yet!
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Post by old double reeder » Thu Dec 18, 2003 9:24 pm

There are different ways to charge. Ultimately the end result is the same - but our "fair share dues" are requested by the booster club - not the school.

You're right, suing is a possibility. No student can be denied a spot in the program because of failure to pay - but we have at least a 95% compliance rate. We request a very reasonable amount, taking into account exactly what our student body is capable of. Our letter is very clear on exactly what the funds are used for - this year we even asked for donations and received several hundred dollars from parents who were happy to help - they'd never been asked before.

By having the request come from the booster club, the school shouldn't be liable. At our school, the booster club and the directors get along incredibly well - teamwork is a vital part to the success of any program, right? If the leadership ain't happy, there ain't nobody happy.

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Post by sexydrummerchic » Thu Dec 18, 2003 9:38 pm

oh yeah it is requested from our booster club too, not the school!!!
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Post by DanielE » Fri Dec 19, 2003 2:29 pm

Were a 3 year school, so we have to pay about the same as Loara....

But all you people flaming me for what I said before.... GET OVER IT!!! I pay all that and find it plenty worth it....Drumline is what I live for....wait, MUSIC is what I live for, I just perfer Tenors over all other instruments....
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Post by loserface » Fri Dec 19, 2003 3:05 pm

we used to be allowed to charge fees. there was a $50 fee my first year, but most people couldn't pay it [yeah, we're poor like that]. no one has ever been denied a spot because they couldn't or just didn't pay. the principal went psycho about everything her second year there and wouldn't let anyone charge for anything. sports included. and then she imposed a one-fundraiser-per-year-per-group thing. and she included EVERY instrumental music group as the same group, so that totally sucks big toes. needless to say, everyone wants her gone. no one [including most faculty] much likes her. heck, one of our best teachers trasferred to our rival school [rancho] just because of her. so yeah. she's screwed pretty much everyone over a million and two times.
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oh, what the hey. i'm sure i can handle band and drumline, too!

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Post by thdrummer88 » Fri Dec 19, 2003 7:54 pm

Hey can you guys say how many members you have and what school you go to as well as how much you pay?
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Post by Ace » Fri Dec 19, 2003 10:37 pm

$200...Yup, and that covers new drumheads straps instructors drill entry fees and bus stuff. But we have a new fundraiser every onth to help pay that off.
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