#highschoolquotes

Our school district is weird so every class has to teach math (ew gross). But it’s band so... we play the entire time? My teacher’s method for getting around this bs rule? Confuse the hell out of the principal. What follows is a summary of their conversation, according to my teacher:

Teacher: Great. So, is there anything else?

Principal: One last thing, how do you work math into your curriculum?

(I should add, that as a typical American high school, we are completely centered around football literally no one gives a shit about the arts. My band made it to NATIONALS last year and the announcement we got was: “(teacher’s name) brought a /team/ of band students to nationals.” And that was it. So basically, the principal knows pretty much nothing about band. Anyways, continuing with this story..)

Teacher: Well, you see we have the typical 4/4 time, which when subdivided into eighth notes gets you 2/4 time, or if you’re feeling the mood 4/8 time. Sometimes if you want, there is a special time we use for special occasions such as waltz’ called 3/6 time, where it is counted in 2 and written in 6. (As he is saying all this he is writing random crap on the board, scribbles and a bunch of notes and numbers and is confusing the hell out of the principal) So! That’s the first part of the math we do in class. Would you like to hear more?

Principal: No.. no that’s enough. Thank you for your time.