To: Lejeune High School Music Department, Tim Tyson, Band Director, and Eric Steimal, Principal
String Students: the right to a class and seperate performance.
Lejeune High School only offers band and choir classes when there are students with different skills who are being left out of the music program. The school year of 2012-2013 was dedicated to teaching stray orchestra students by a current junior and an alumni. String students don't have the same rights as band or choir students and don't have the chance to perform for the school and aren't a school organization within itself. We believe that the strings program should continue as it is a dying art and the students who perform in this area should have the same chances to perform and enhance their skills like the rest of the music departments. If not an actual class, than at least a club with the ability to perform for groups of people representing the school. This petition is originally put forth by Lidia Ybanez, a Lejeune alumni, and Alexis (Nikki) Ybanez, a junior of the 2013-2014 school year in support of the rest of the string students.
Why is this important?
Students from all over the world transfer to Lejeune High School; the students with talents in the realm of strings and orchestra are immediately cut out of the music department because it doesn't offer the opportunity to perform or learn in that area. Orchestra is a dying art that should be invested in when the chance presents itself. If not a class, than a club at least; there are students perfectly capable of teaching other students in the same area, even under the direction of the band director. These talented students shouldn't be simply pushed aside.