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Post by paddy on Feb 21, 2020 21:58:55 GMT -6
Pretty much all schools melt about 5-10% or so each class, each year. It’s probably very likely North Hardin still fell under the cut off. No they don’t unless there are some deeply distressing issues in a community. Local school by me which would be AA size... Over the last 4 years (so compared to 4 years ago) Senior class -23 or -5.8% Junior class -1 or .2% Sophomore class +3 or .8% Freshman class +22 or 6.5% Overall +1 Compared to last year Senior class -11 or 2.7% Junior class -6 or 1.7% Sophomore class -10 or 2.7% Freshman class +9 or 2.5% Overall -18 That isn’t a 70 kid slide required to drop back to AA at NH nor is it a 5-10% melt every year. I don’t have time to look at a bunch of schools near me, but this trend is pretty typical in our geographic area of southern Indiana which isn’t terribly different than Kentucky.
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Post by boahistorybuff on Feb 29, 2020 12:08:00 GMT -6
Is it just me or should class be based off BAND size, not school size? I just can’t find it fair that, for example, Tarpon is a AA school but has a HUGE band because it’s an ARTS school. Other AA bands should have a shot at the championship too, and I don’t see why Tarpon is allowed to compete against other AA schools with that big of a band. Same with PCEP, they are AAAA but have the band size of a small AA school. They shouldn’t have to compete with Carmel, Avon, Hebron, etc. for a class championship. I’m not saying ditch the WHOLE system, but I think some things need to change because it’s sad when these directors have to tell kids that they’ll never win because they are competing against band 50, 60 even 70% larger than them. Thoughts? In the 1980s, the Michigan Competing Band Association based their flights on band size. The bands from the west side of the state hated that classification and essentially boycotted MCBA (or MCBDA as it was known back then). In 1990, they changed the classification to be based on school size and a lot more bands from across the state began to participate.
It just seems to me that basing it on band size never goes over well.
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Post by ilikeguard on Mar 1, 2020 14:03:43 GMT -6
Is it just me or should class be based off BAND size, not school size? I just can’t find it fair that, for example, Tarpon is a AA school but has a HUGE band because it’s an ARTS school. Other AA bands should have a shot at the championship too, and I don’t see why Tarpon is allowed to compete against other AA schools with that big of a band. Same with PCEP, they are AAAA but have the band size of a small AA school. They shouldn’t have to compete with Carmel, Avon, Hebron, etc. for a class championship. I’m not saying ditch the WHOLE system, but I think some things need to change because it’s sad when these directors have to tell kids that they’ll never win because they are competing against band 50, 60 even 70% larger than them. Thoughts? In my understanding, the benefit of basing it on school size is due to the talent pool of students to choose from. Using personal examples, BA can cut any kids that don’t meet the standard. Camdenton can’t afford to do that, and instead works with every kid to get them to meet the standard. At a school of 4000, you can trim 500 kids down to the 300 most talented ones. At a school of 1200, you’re lucky to get 150 kids interested, and you take almost if not every kid and keep recruiting. The class system works well for the most part because small schools get a chance to be represented. A large school could have a small, very skilled group and would crush the schools that do everything they can to have a group the same size.
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