Pleasant memories. The asshole next to blew as hard as he could point blank to my ear. Fuck I hate those things.
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I got detention for a week because when one of my classmates did this to me I hit him with mine.
No ragerts.
One assault for another
Did anyone here watch American Pie? I thought the benefit of this instrument is clear from that movie.
Isn't she using a "flûte traversière" in that movie (not sure of the English name, "sideways flute"?).
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That is a flute. This is a recorder. It's just not the same putting it up there.
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Shit, that's even a Yamaha. They make a pretty decent entry level recorder.
Ya'll won't be laughing when people are paying me good money to get the snakes out of their cities.
Looking back I'm actually confused why this was even a thing. Did Big Recorder have deals with schools to push this? Is Big Recorder a thing?
We only ever used them for like 3 weeks and then it was on to the next thing. Haven't touched it since.
I wasn't given an instrument to learn to read music, also I was taught the Kodály method, which is quite bad for this purpose, also we were taught the doremi instead of the proper letter names of the notes for years, which is not absolute, thus I never learned how to read music that way. When I learned the guitar, I learned sheet music so well I can still read it, although not at a fast pace anymore.
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Now that its 10 years since I last set foot in a school, I hold three opinions about the public school system (in Germany; check yourself what applies to your country):
- Schools are an institution where adolescents are detained during the day, so their parent(s) can work and not worry about their children setting fire to the city.
- A lot of the curriculum doesn’t prepare you for life. And it’s not meant to. Instead it forces you to engage with a topic for a longish period of time without the possibility to quit. That is supposed to allow you to see if you find the problems that topic poses interesting and if you like finding solutions for these problems.
- Schools should put more emphasis on life skills.
Damned musicians!
How can ye exploit the workers if ye doon’t et yer meeeet!!
To be fair though if someone can't count up to four then financial literacy probably isn't in their future.
So you've tried art, and discovered it's not for you. That's still better than not having tried art at all in first place. You at least know where you stand in regards to that question now. ...Or at least I hope so.
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As many comments pointed out already, in the USA we usually learn to play the recorder in 3rd grade. It's not exactly an age where it makes any sense to try and learn how home mortgages work.
Though, I very much recall having some basic "personal finance" education in elementary school. It's the age where you are learning about currency denominations. How many quarters, dimes, etc. to make a dollar.
When I was in high school we were all required to take an "Economics" class where they did try to cover balancing a checkbook and basics like that. I just don't think most kids paid much attention. I know I didn't.
Timmy, your teacher sent you to me because you opted not to disclose the liquidation of a foreign capital asset on your mock corporate tax filing, and instead paid the balance of sale out to yourself as a bonus and tried to hide this behind artificially depreciating the asset at an accelerated pace to make it appear as though there was no gain on sale. You're going to sit here until you can properly explain yourself, no capri sun or snack packs until I get answers!
Now if you could only afford some hot cross buns
They could have also taught us how to change a tire, or make a casserole, or which fork is the salad fork. Ultimately our parents should be teaching us some stuff... but if the parents didn't learn it (maybe because ma and pa simply didn't have the patience to teach) then we start running into issues, and eventually we end out with a generation who can barely make mac and cheese from a box, so they get it doordashed.
And I'm still good at it!