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Name: Melinda Warthen on Feb 9, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Jessica Bryant on Feb 9, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Brittany Harris on Feb 11, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Mary Keys on Feb 11, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Allan Berry on Feb 11, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Besha Piper on Feb 11, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Simone Brennan on Feb 11, 2010Comments: As a CT grad (81) and proud parent of a current student / member of the orchestra I find this news devastating. We have to do what we can to override this decision - not just for CT but for music and art ...throughout DPS - the only lifeline for so many students.Flag
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Name: Morrie A Matthews on Feb 11, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Emily Avers on Feb 11, 2010Comments: Please think about the negative impact this will have on many students' lives. Eliminating the Cass Tech orchestra program would be a huge and costly mistake on many levels.Flag
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Name: Mary McGowan on Feb 11, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Aja Burrell Wood on Feb 11, 2010Comments: More than 30 music and art teachers are threatened with Feb. 28 or March 7, 2010 layoffs. In my view, the arts programs in Detroit are one of the things that have been working for decades within the Detroit Public School system despite its troubles in other areas. Losing arts teachers and programs would only serve to put Detroit's youth in further peril.Flag
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Name: Anne Brege on Feb 11, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Trina Chowdhury on Feb 11, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Sue Williams on Feb 11, 2010Comments: Music and the arts is an important part of a childs' education, and helps improve performance in math and other subjects. Please keep CTO and allow Mr. Haas to continue his important work, and keep art and music in all schools!!Flag
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Name: Christina Barnett (Diener) C/o 1990 on Feb 11, 2010Comments: Taking away this program is like taking the math classes to a certain extent. Music of this kind is vital to young minds! Don't take that or Mr. Haas away from these kids!!!Flag
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Name: Stefanie Brege on Feb 11, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Elaine Johnson on Feb 11, 2010Comments: Music hath charms to soothe the savage beast.Flag
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Name: Atarah Washington on Feb 11, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Katrease Stafford on Feb 11, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Ana Luisa Cardona on Feb 11, 2010Comments: Cass Tech's arts programming has been a point of pride throughout the state. Why would anyone make a decision to eliminate one of your shining star programs? Please reconsider this decision and invest in the excellence of your arts programs.Flag
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Name: Dawn L. Low on Feb 12, 2010Comments: Music programs are not simply optional - they teach us what it means to be human, how to work together, and remind us that there's more to life than just flesh and bone and the daily grind.Flag
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Name: Talia Winston on Feb 12, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Elayne Elliott on Feb 12, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Christina Perez on Feb 12, 2010Comments: Keeping students involved in music and the arts is a great way to ensure the protection and strength of the future generations.Flag
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Name: Laura Avers Duda on Feb 12, 2010Comments: Do not limit the potential of students by removing nurturing teachers such as Mr. Marc Haas at Cass Tech. It's more than just music we're talking about. It's the lives of children and how they express themselves, how they cope with life, and how they socialize positively with their peers. Thank you.Flag
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Name: Kyndra Wojciechowski on Feb 12, 2010Comments: Music is not just a frivolous side hobby. Humanity needs music to survive. Where there are spaces between us, music exists, and only that can truely bring us together.Flag
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Name: Naomi Christine Leapheart on Feb 12, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Ebonie Bray on Feb 12, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Judith McClain Melander on Feb 12, 2010Comments: The music program at Cass Tech has had an immeasurable impact on my life. As a professional musician working in the Twin Cities for the past fifteen years, I have been proud to let people know that I got my start in the Cass Tech music department (something, by the way, that I have in common with Georgia Fleezanis, who is first chair of the Minnesota Orchestra). Please do everything in your power to save this program, and honor the place that music and arts have in our educational system.Flag
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Name: Nancy Gruett on Feb 12, 2010Comments: Every position lost in the 'arts'is a position lost forever. This is somthing we CANNOT even consider.Flag
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Name: Judy B. Williams on Feb 12, 2010Comments: I was at the DPS Board Meeting last night. The speakers for Cass Tech were eloquent and impressive. They said it all!Flag
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Name: Jeffrey N Holman on Feb 12, 2010Comments: Cass Tech's music program has been one of the city's brightest jewels for almost a century, enriching thousands of lives, fostering many of the country's best music teachers and populating the ranks of nearly every major symphony orchestra. Abandoning this great tradition would be a terrible tragedy.Flag
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Name: Gail Ferguson Stout on Feb 12, 2010Comments: The Cass Tech Orchestra program is a mainstay of the Detroit community. Students should have every opportunity to learn, play and grow with music. Music is SCIENCE: It is exact, specific, and demands exact acoustics. A musical score is a chart or graph which indicates frequencies, intensities, volume changes, melody, and harmony all at once and with the most exact control of time. Music is MATHEMATICS: Rhythmically, music is based on divisions of time into precise fractions which must be done instantaneously, not worked out on paper. Music is FOREIGN LANGUAGE: Most music terms are in Italian, German, or French. Music notation is certainly not English but a highly developed shorthand that uses symbols to represent ideas. Music itself is the most complete and universal language. Music is HISTORY: Music reflects the environment and time of its creation, including its cultural, national and racial origins. Music is PHYSICAL EDUCATION: Music requires fantastic coordination of fingers, hands, arms, lip, cheek, and facial muscles, and extraordinary control of the back, stomach, and chest muscles, which each must respond instantly to what the eye sees, the ear hears and the mind interprets. Music DEVELOPS INSIGHT and DEMANDS RESEARCH: Organized, independent thought is required. Music is all of these things, but most of all, MUSIC IS ART. Music allows a human being to take all these technical terms, facts, and techniques and use them to create emotion —the one thing science cannot duplicate: HUMANISM, FEELING, and EMOTION. Doesn't Detroit Cass Tech NEED Music?Flag
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Name: Catherine Nicolia on Feb 12, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Erica Kirchner-Dean on Feb 12, 2010Comments: My daughter is in a good music program in her middle school... the programs are few and far between and do not even begin to reach out to the number of people who would like to benefit from such programs. We need more of these wonderful fine arts programs and people to staff them not less!Flag
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Name: Alesia Byrd on Feb 12, 2010Comments: Dear Robert Bobb, Please reconsider what you are going to do with the wonderful teacher and orchestra program that you all have at Cass Tech. I know in these hard economic times that you are put in a position to find where you can make cuts but if you cut the performing arts you are cutting the human spirit and what the arts do to help students in all areas of learning. In my 20 plus years of teaching music to young children of all ages I have had the joy in seeing where music has reached some students where nothing else has and they have gone on to excel in life to become professional musicians, doctors, lawyers, teachers, all great citizens in our wonderful world. Please do not take the humanity out of our world we need it more now than ever!! Sincerely, Alesia Byrd Chair String,Harp and Guitar Department Flint School of Performing Arts 1025 E. Kearsley Flint, Mi 48503 810 237-3128Flag
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Name: Kirk Moss on Feb 12, 2010Comments: The Cass Tech orchestra has one of the most important histories in America and continues to benefit students today. Such orchestra programs enrich students' lives in many ways beyond merely playing an orchestral instrument. Students in quality school music programs score higher on standardized tests compared to students in schools with deficient music education programs. Music study enhances the process of learning. But the benefits of music study do not stop with academic achievement. Students who participate in school band or orchestra have the lowest levels of current and lifelong use of alcohol, tobacco and illicit drugs among any group in our society. Students in the arts are found to be more cooperative with their teacher and peers, more self-confident and better able to express ideas. In light of these findings, let’s maximize music participation, not remove music teachers. A 2006 Gallup Poll revealed that 94 percent of Americans consider music to be part of a well-rounded education. Music is a part of what makes us whole; music is a part of what makes us human, and every child grows up singing. The Nobel Prize winner T.S. Eliot penned, “Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” Please go farther to keep music teachers in Detroit schools and an orchestra at Cass Tech.Flag
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Name: Noah on Feb 12, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Nadine Deleury on Feb 12, 2010Comments: Dear Mr. Bobb, I urge you to reconsider the decision to terminate the orchestra program at Cass Tech. It has been such a long tradition of quality that has changed the lives of so many young people and which is renowned in the entire country. You just cannot rebuilt such a program ever, if it is cut now. Please DO NOT let that happen, Sincerely, Nadine Deleury, cellist and teacherFlag
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Name: Erica A . Watson on Feb 12, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Jennifer P. Metsch on Feb 12, 2010Comments: I am a 1980 graduate of Cass and the Performing Arts Curriculum. I am continually struck by the value of the arts in education as an integral part of the social and emotional development of young people. The discipline, artistic expression, acceptance as part of a collaborative community and links to their academic studies is exceptional! Eunice Moore's influence on the Dance Workshop community that I was so fortunate to be part of, is felt and used in so many work place situations in my 20 + year career in sales and marketing. Please reconsider the layoff of Mr. Haas and the cut of the Orchestra program at Cass. The academic rigour and arts are what make Cass so special and continually graduate the successful and creattive talent that is available to the world. Very truly yours, Jennifer Pickering Metsch Class of 1980Flag
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Name: Lanice Williams on Feb 12, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Alicia Nielsen on Feb 12, 2010Comments: Cass Tech's orchestra program is so wonderful. Let's hope it is saved and the petition helps.Flag
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Name: Dawn Gawel on Feb 12, 2010Comments: Please don't overlook the impact that arts have in the education of our youth. Please don't overlook the tradition of excellence that is Cass Technical High School! Please keep Cass Tech Orchestra and Mr. Haas. Sincerely, Dawn Gawel Cass Tech Performing Arts 1979Flag
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Name: James F. Marble on Feb 12, 2010Comments: One of the things that Detroit had and still has is Cass Tech. At one time Cass was rated as one of the 10 best high schools in America. And one of the things Cass had that was also great was the Music Dept. Lots of history, and lots of kid's went on to do things in the Music field. Please think about this, and reconsider the thought of removing one of Detroit best kept secrets. I still keep in contact with many I had met at Cass that were in music, and still are. They all over the country and some are in Europe. That education I think about a lot. And I'm very happy for it. It made me a better person. Someone like Mr. Haas is too valuable to let go. There needs to be an education for music and most important is the strings of music. Thanks, James F. Marble, Music, Cass 1972Flag
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Name: Martine Salane on Feb 12, 2010Comments: I believe that type of program is vital as part of formal education.Flag
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Name: Derek Lockhart on Feb 12, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Maissa Saker on Feb 12, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Connie Hutchinson on Feb 12, 2010Comments: It would be a horrible disservice to the children of Detroit to let this incredible program disappear. You must not allow this to happen.Flag
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Name: Connie Hutchinson on Feb 12, 2010Comments: It would be a horrible disservice to the children of Detroit to let this incredible program disappear. You must not allow this to happen.Flag