School Performance Etiquette

These are kids on stage, not professional adults, and we have to treat them a little better.

Photo by Julio Rionaldo on Unsplash

I taught band and orchestra for five years in south Phoenix, at a minority-majority school that qualified for Title I funding. Out of my peak of 160 students, four of them took private lessons. Four, out of one hundred and sixty. Three of those four were…