u/RepresentativeBook89

Middle school band director in GA. If you live in the South you know how August-October can be. My room is unbearably hot and humid. I’ve told administration about it and they’ve put in multiple requests for HVAC to come out and fix it but maintenance aren’t the fastest moving people in the world, and even then half of the time they don’t even fix the problem. Some kids have started to complain and get nauseous because of the classroom conditions. Any recommendations on how to cool down my band room?

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1st year middle school band director here. For the upcoming school year the district decided to put every school (elementary, middle and high) on a A/B day schedule. Monday and Wednesday is A, Tuesday Thursday is B. Every nine weeks, Friday switches between A and B day. So for the first nine weeks, Friday is an A day, then for the next nine weeks it’s a B day.

The problem is that my band classes are only on A days, B days is general music (I tried to fight it but they wouldn’t let me change it). I wanted to build this band program because the district will shut it down if I don’t get my numbers up, we already lost our choir and orchestra program due to low numbers/funding. When the nine weeks come and Friday is a B day, I will only have my band students for two days out the entire week.

How am I supposed to build up my program if I can’t meet with my kids at least half the week for half of the year?

Any advice is appreciated because I’m really stressed out and I want my students to succeed.

My district is switching schedules next school year to block scheduling. Basically instead of my middle school students having band every day, they’ll have it every other day so I only see them twice or 3x a week. My goal was to build the program because we’re very small right now but this sounds detrimental. If anyone else had to deal with this, how did you all succeed?