I think it is terrible when there is an interest among the students and the school will not furnish them what they need. Thank God my boys are out of school now, one in college and the other in a high demand career. School politics are terrible. Can you believe that when my youngest son was in high school and taking Math and English the school did not furnish them with books? They handed out copies of the worksheets instead, saying they did not have funds to furnish all students with books. Books they needed to bring home, review assignments, and refresh their memory with. Now I see we have students wishing to take band and the school has no instruments. These are hard times and instruments can be very expensive, especially if you purchase a new one. I wish this were not true, but from my experience I bet if a student needed a new pair of football cleats, or a pair of basketball shoes, or a baseball glove because their parents couldn't afford to buy them, the school and the community would be all over this by getting them everything they needed and more. Maybe it is wrong to want to develope a musical talent you can use for the rest of your life instead of playing sports for a few years in school which in most cases you will never do again after graduation. A fat couch potato can sit on the couch and still play their instrument years later, while the other can only sit there with the remote in hand watching a game they used to play on TV. Laughing!