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There are several elementary schools in the magnet program in WCPSS, too, but I can't tell if in their music offerings they teach instruments. WCPSS:*Magnet Schools .
At poppydog...wow that's great but for a parent without a car moving to Raleigh, many other people told me without a car it's best to do most things within Raleigh where i'm moving to. Do you agree? I don't want it to be a hassle to travel to far from home for her schooling.
I would expect the music program at any elementary school to really depend on the teacher. My youngest goes to Carrboro Elementary and the music program there is...hmmm...less than challenging, but enjoyable anyway? However, the art teacher is really a drama teacher in disguise and puts on an amazing school play each year which sometimes is a musical. I would expect that somewhere in CHCCS there is an exceptional elementary music teacher, too.
If you don't have a car you might want to look at Chapel Hill/Carrboro. Free city buses. It's a comparatively easy place to be car-free. Raleigh would be tough w/o a car, I'd think.
Ok CHTransplant and poppydog..I only studied Raleigh as far as moving. I don't know much about the town of Chapel Hill/Carrboro.
I need to start looking into it, to see if this is indeed the best option for me. I did want to be in the city that's why I like Raleigh. It has the suburbs and city life I was looking for.
I always thought that maybe the reason kids didn't learn wind instruments until 6th grade was because their jaws/teeth were still developing. Hard to play the trumpet if you're missing your two front teeth.
I suppose the teeth thing could be a factor, but the bottom line is that it is very expensive to provide band and orchestra in elementary schools. Starting in middle school just makes sense logistically and financially.
My kids started orchestra in 4th and band in 5th and here is what I observed....many kids at that age lacked the maturity to dedicate themselves to an instrument. By 7th grade a LOT of kids dropped the instrument, and by high school, they were struggling to get kids to stay in band or orchestra. It was pretty embarrassing when high schools of more than 1000 students couldn't put together a marching band of more than 40 kids.
We knew plenty of kids who had private lessons before school programs started. Since it would be a drag for them to be so far advanced, they would just learn a second instrument in the school program. That could be an option for the OPs child.
There is no shortage of music instructors in Raleigh.
Also, kids who are learning an instrument benefit from a certain level of music theory education before starting (you can learn both at the same time, it just moves faster if you can read music prior to learning the instrument). The music education my girls got in K-3 was much more advanced (they played recorder in 3rd, not 4th). When my daughter got to high school here in Raleigh, the chorus teacher was shocked that she knew how to read music. Apparently, very few of her students do.
At poppydog...wow that's great but for a parent without a car moving to Raleigh, many other people told me without a car it's best to do most things within Raleigh where i'm moving to. Do you agree? I don't want it to be a hassle to travel to far from home for her schooling.
It is difficult to live here with no car. It is also difficult to live here as a single parent making the type of wages that came up in your other thread.
I'm not sure how music lessons and riding lessons would be remotely feasible, even if you could overcome the transportation issue.
I wish you the best, but have you investigated the costs of living here, the lack of mass transit, etc?
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If you don't have a car you might want to look at Chapel Hill/Carrboro. Free city buses. It's a comparatively easy place to be car-free. Raleigh would be tough w/o a car, I'd think.
Do think that CH-Carrboro would be doable on 9-11 dollars an hour? With a child and music and/or riding lessons?
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