Chatterbox: Chirp at Cricket

This officially the last thing I will post before I leave.

I need to post this because I need to RANNNTT!!!

RANT. RANT. RANT.

I'm not really angry just..disappointed at my band teachers lack of logic.

SOoooo....

For band our song silent night has a solo throughout the whole song. Me and seven others worked hard for this solo. I was among the top four. Over the past few days in band, we've played with the band, both together and apart. There are two flutists, me included, and two clarinets. Today after class our band teacher called us to talk. He started by saying, "We all know Katie is the doggone player in the band." Everyone agreed. "But Suzie works hard to." Okay, I'm calling the second chair flutist Suzie. He continued to talk about how Suzie takes private lessons, (I do too, but she takes them from our band teacher.)About how she would practice as much as me if she had the time and was a homeschooler.

Right off the bat, he immeditely assumes I have time because I practice an hour a day. I do not, have time. My schedule is worse then hers, I can almost guarantee. I do not have time for flute, I make time because flute is my priority. It is more important to me then sports and basketball. So, then he said, "So she deserves this, because she never gets to solo."

Now THIS. I am so very dissappointed. I will not make it to our next concert, therefore she will get to solo. And no, she does not deserve to solo. Because it was COMPETITION!! He KNEW I would do good, and yet if he was just going to hand it over to Suzie why even bother letting me try!!!!! She can get ALL the solos next quarter!

I feel like he's descriminating me because I 'have more time as a homeschooler.'

I plan to talk to him about this tommorow...Hopefully we can come up with a compromise and split the solo. Because I don't want to go and seem selfish...

In all honesty, I do deserve it...

Peace.