School using lottery to decide what instruments students play
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PostPosted: Fri, Sep 29 2006, 8:13 pm EDT    Post subject: School using lottery to decide what instruments students play Reply with quote

School using lottery to determine what instruments students play

It was the luck of the draw this year for Cranbury School fourth-graders.

On Sept. 15, students participated in the school's first music lottery, a new system meant to make the assigning of band instruments more fair by relying on chance, rather than a first-come-first-served system.

The school board decided in the spring to switch to the new system, which was developed by Chief School Administrator and Principal Carol Malouf and the music department, said school board President Joan Rue.

In the past, fourth-graders would see a music demonstration at the end of their third-grade year, where local musicians would show the students the eight instruments they could choose to study in the fall. Students would then decide with their parents whether they wanted to play flute, clarinet, bass clarinet, alto saxophone, trumpet, trombone, baritone horn or French horn.

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