I see his point, I think the school over reacted.
Ummm...big deal. There was no mention of injury to the child. Now, if the teacher had asked him to bash his head in with a hammer, then I could see the problem, but this? Ridiculous.
I dont see the issue. Doesn’t seem as if the teacher was brutalizing the kid.
If it was couched in terms of "hit the drum about as hard as you'd want to hit your own head," then it's actually an excellent teaching method.
If it was more like, "hit your head hard to see how the drums feel..." then he'd be out of line.
This was a teaching technique, obviously this kids parents weren't in band.
Good thing he wasn’t playing the tuba.
Could have been much worse - his teacher could have been Gallagher...
If a band teacher told my 7 yr old daughter to hit herself on the head with the drum sticks she wouldn’t do it. I tend to think the parents aren’t teaching their child to think for himself. If she was in trouble for not doing it then I might want a talk with the teacher.
It is teaching to breath from the diaphragm that can be problem. Music teacher don’t care if drummers breath...
right.
My music teacher used to bean me in the head with a chalkboard eraser.
Last week, the county next to mine had a case where a bus driver who had just dropped a bunch of kids off on a field trip out of town decided to do a little shopping while she waited.
The only problem was, she did her shopping in an adult bookstore, parked the bus in front of said store, and left a sick kid on the bus.
When she came out, the cops were outside waiting on her, wanting to know what she was up to.
The board is still fighting to fire her.
Everyone knows that the proper way to discipline drummers is with a cattle prod.
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Most kids just chuckle when they hit themselves, as the parents just watch with a puzzled look on their faces.
Back in my day the teacher would have done it himself.