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Instrumental Music Cuts Hit Clovis Unified School District: Clovis and Fresno Freeper Alert!

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Concerned parents should stop perpetrating the government indoctrination system buy pulling their children OUT! If all "conservatives" did so, the system would collapse - as it should. So - the blame can be laid squarely on the backs of supine so-called conservatives who continue to send their children - like sheep to the slaughter - to their local taxpayer-supported government socialist training academies.

To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves is sinful and tyrannical. -- Thomas Jefferson

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I have a little story to tell you. I grew up in a small town where the two heavy hitters in the school district were both ex-jocks. One, in fact, the Superintendent of Schools (i.e. head of school district) was a referee for the state high school basketball tournaments. Our high school, with enrollment of nearly 1000 kids, had nearly 300 kids involved in the band and chorus depts. and we won everything there was to win at state-sponsored contests. Did the superintendent or the principal ever show up to one of our school concerts? Out of my 4 years in the school, I saw the principal at ONE - I repeat, ONE - of the concerts. The ex-jock superintendent NEVER showed up.

There's more to this story. On my first day of my freshman year, the superintendent was strolling the school halls and struck up a conversation with me (I was told by my 8th grade teachers that I was one of the most promising kids out of that class and to give high school everything I had to try to achieve straight A's and so forth). "So," he says, "What do you hope to do while you're here in this school?" I responded, "I want to achieve a 4.0 average with all straight A's." His response (which I will never forget) was "Ha! We'll see about that!"

Well, that set off alarm bells in me right away, as I had heard many stories over the years from my older siblings who told me about this superintendent's verbal harassment of "music kids".

Fast-forwarding to the final week of my senior year, (and yes, I was on tap to be valedictorian of my class with a 4.0 avg.), I was struggling with Economics, taught by a teacher who had been teaching in that school since 1946 (one of THE best teachers I've ever had), trying to hang onto that A.

This teacher KNEW that scholastic achievement was my ticket out of that Peyton Place of a town, and hence I figured out that he was in my corner. He told me right before the final exam, that when this superintendent was nosing around earlier that week trying to figure out whose students' names would be printed up as valedictorian and salutatorian, that he (the teacher) basically told the superintendent that my name was to go on the trophy, because no matter what I got on the final, he was going to give me an A. (BTW, I got an A- on the final :-). The bottom line message in all of this was that this teacher had survived many a superintendent and he wasn't going to let the anti-music-biased ex-jock superintendent get in my way of success.

LOL! I haven't heard anything about this! I love that you made them replace the signs! Sometimes the CUSD officials act like the SS don't they?
Having gone to school in the district and being a former employee I know what kind of dictators they can be.
Can you imagine them ever cutting funds for sports? Heck no! They'd do without text books first!