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The overwhelming amount of paperwork related to purchasing, field trips, events, and facilities requests.

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Limiting number of electives... students can’t be in asb and music or avid & music

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Music class being taught during prep time or after/before school

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Being tied to grade-level collaboration meetings, no classroom, foggy funding, assessing 2000 students, half the instructional minutes compared to other schools in our district, Seeing students once or twice a month...

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classroom teachers not supporting the music program or not letting their kids come to band

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Lack of support from admin

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Foundation using funds earned by the arts programs to fund classroom field trips. They do not understand that we need our roll over funds to build our programs.

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Mixed level classes

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Unsupportive admin

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Counselors promoting AVID, and Spanish.

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1) student scheduling conflicts
2) budget
3) student to staff ratio way too large and getting funding for another instructor
5) funding for enough support staff in music as well as school-wide

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AP pressure and misconceptions decreases student participation

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Kids need to take all the AP classes

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“Subbing” for an extra class (1/6) but not being provided with the online grade book or student/parent contact information system because I’m a sub, not the teacher.

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Have to share my time with the art teacher, PE teacher, and ASL teacher

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Money mostly.... Sally Smith is a giant thorn😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡

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Inadequate and inappropriate rehearsal space

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Varying schedules depending on collaboration rotations

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A district that doesn’t support the arts fully

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Elementary school music programs disappearing

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Teaching Credential Courses

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Too many electives or choices

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Combined Beginning and Intermediate/Advanced classes

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Being allowed to have parent boosters

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No audition courses, so all levels in one classroom

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Working at multiple schools w/multiple points of contact, different school systems, logistics

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Too many non-music teachers in the substitute teaching pool. It’s assumed I won’t teach music when I sub even though I will. Leave me music scores.

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Lack of prep time

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Student Fundraising account rules vs Booster fundraising account rules. Not being able to pay coaches either way.

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Being the only music teacher at the high school, therefore being asked to be band, choir, and general music teacher

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Scheduling (continuity of students)

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Student behavior preventing the forward movement of classes

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Overwhelming of students with IEPs and 504s in each class.

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Not enough time with students

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Scheduling confusion with counselors

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too much paperwork

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Scheduling of students

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Okay, there are things that bug me-locked in the “collab” schedule!”

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Not having time to collaborate with general classroom teachers for arts integration in the general class.

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Others using my room and moving things including percussion equipment and music stands

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teachers keeping students from coming to band as punishment (you didn’t do you’re homework you can’t go to band)

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Can’t leave the classroom for any reason without mounds of paperwork that is due an unrealistic amount of time beforehand- it’s a concert in the quad, not skydiving!!

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Micromanagement by inept, untrained, district office personnel

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teachers being unsupportive and not sending students to band

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Language programs grabbing kids away from music programs.

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lack of classroom teacher support

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Scheduling conflicts/changes

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CTE getting the support and drive from the district.

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Constant negative comments

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Student scheduling conflicts

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Having to set up and take down my music classroom environment every day because I use our auditorium.

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not having adequate teaching space

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Required attendance at all staff meetings, even when on topics that do not pertain to music

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Irrelevant staff meetings

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No prep period during the school day.

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Endless emails

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Not really

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Multiple preps and not enough time to completely prepare