Folks may not be aware that there is no real off-season for music teachers.
So… I basically travel the locality calling on band and orchestra directors. Since I sing (a lot) I often drop by the choir classes as well.
And I can tell you this:
If you are a band or orchestra director you are trying to figure out how to get everyone who needs to be entered in solos and ensembles entered and matched up with music. And eventually accompanists but hey, Rome wasn’t built in a day. And that P.O. that has to be in place to pay for the entry… that has to get done before you enter to keep the auditors happy. And if you are also a high school director in OK making sure everything is set for All-State or other OMEA stuff.
If you are a choir director you have OMEA and ACDA to deal with in terms of getting everyone there for all-state groups and p-slips and and and, but in the mean time you are working on sight reading big time and sometimes you even have the kids working on sight reading while you look at email or text parents or other directors about all the other stuff. And same as everyone getting ready for solos and ensembles.
And it would be nice if the parents involved in all that would just read the information you send home and understand that you have LOTS of students to deal with this time of year but you will go ahead and patiently explain things to them in calls and emails because being a parent is hard too.
And in the mean time the rest of the school things you have nothing going on right now because the concerts and contests are later and you must have it easy as pie in January, lucky you. Sure.
The Happy Rock Way 