Farmington MS Band

If you want to be enrolled in the groups or classes for your child's Band classes in the FSD Knights app or Google Classroom, it should happen automatically if your information is correct in Infinite Campus. If you do not believe you are signed up for the correct info, please reach out to Mr. Naes via email or through the school website.

Advocacy:

• Video: Wynton Marsalis on music advocacy

• "If you learn something slowly, you forget it slowly. If you learn something quickly, you forget it immediately." - Itzhak Perlman

• "70% of admissions officers of the Nation's major universities say high school credit and achievement in the arts are significant considerations for admission."  (BPOTM.org)

• "The College Entrance Examination Board found that students involved in public school music programs scored 107 points higher on the SAT."  (BPOTM.org)

• Video: The science behind effective practice

• "Lewis Thomas, physician and biologist, found that music majors comprise the highest percentage of accepted medical students (66%)."  (BPOTM.org)

• "Schools with music programs have a 90.2% graduation rate compared to schools without music education at 72.9%. -National Association for Music Education

• "Students who participate in music have the lowest levels of current and lifelong use of alcohol, tobacco, and illicit drugs among any group in our society."  (BPOTM.org)

• "Students involved in music get higher grades, have higher test scores, have higher graduation rates, and do better with foreign languages."  (BPOTM.org)

• "Low income students who receive arts education are 4x more likely to have high academic achievement and 3x more likely to have high attendance than those who don't." - The President's Committee for the Arts and the Humanities