Wow! I can't imagine. We only have 9 songs and I have small groups on several because the entire primary wasn't remembering all the verses. I've been chorister the whole year and reviewed like crazy and we still need to polish a few things. I hope she will take out those extra songs!
--- In primusic@yahoogroups.com, L1011Jet@... wrote:
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> In a message dated 8/29/2011 8:45:05 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> Stephanie.Gisseman@... writes:
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> My Primary President e-mailed me her outline of the program last night…and
> she has 16 songs in it! Good grief! Eight of those songs are ones that
> the children either don’t know at all or barely know…they’re definitely not
> songs we’ve worked on this year and we can’t have them program-ready in
> the next six weeks. I sent her back an e-mail and expressed my concerns
> about having that many songs in the program (if you estimate two minutes per
> song, which is low for some of the songs, that’s 32 minutes of the program
> just on songs â€" and we only have 35-40-45 minutes total for the program!),
> having that many new songs to teach in the next six weeks, and having the “
> required†songs still needing polishing in the next six weeks… I was just
> called at the end of April and so this is the first Primary program I’ve
> gone through with this presidency (but I was in Primary for 15 years
> previously, including several years as Primary Chorister and Primary President, so
> my concerns are coming from lots of experience).
> I told her I would be happy to suggest a couple of additional songs the
> children *already know* that could be used, but there is no way we have time
> in the program to sing 16 songs, let alone prepping 16 songs for the
> program!
> Yikes!!
> Stephanie in GA
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> Stick to your guns on this because that is a very unfair request. If she
> insists, I would gladly suggest to her, that she is more than welcome to
> teach "her" choices over the next few weeks.
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> Karla
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> You can’t be right by doing wrong; you can’t be wrong by doing right.
> Your personal conscience always warns you as a friend before it punishes you
> as a judge.
> ~ Richard G. Scott
>
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