How did your high school kids balance school and music?

<p>Percussion:</p>

<p>Sadly, another failed child of this society that produces only couch potato slackers who watch tv and play videogames and don’t take responsibility for themselves <em>lol</em>. What amazes me is I hear all this crap about kids today being underachievers, lazy,etc, and compared to the way we were when I was growing up, well, let’s just say on these terms our parents were right about myself and my peers, we were losers and slackers compared to these kids:). </p>

<p>What you left out was that she is in the top level junior orchestra from 0900 to 1400, and the conductor is a tyrant who feeds players who don’t match up to his pet great white shark. Someday, my son (who is in one of the highest level youth orchestras in the US) will tell his own kids “You think that is tough, you should have seen the conductor of the youth symphony I was in, now that was tough”, your daughter will be able to do the same I suspect:)</p>