@AkayaofthemoonSpeaking of students teaching, in grade four and five, our teacher, who was supposed to teach us music, didn't actually know how to play any instruments other than piano, which we can't really teach the whole class. So they got some fifth graders to try and teach, and, um, you can expect it didn't go well.* After four very, very strange classes, she gave up and our teacher decided she'd make our class a choir instead and write out our report cards as if we were learning recorders like all the other kids. In grade six, I went to a new school and they took music pretty seriously (they had been learning since second grade), even though they were all still playing recorders, and I was so utterly lost that my teacher just agreed to let me play my ocarina in place.
*Actual things I remember them saying:
"Okay, so you like, basically, hold thing thingy like this, and do this thing with your fingers, and you like, sort of spit into it, but you don't spit into it, and..."
"FOR FUCK'S SAKE STOP TRYING TO PLAY WE'RE TRYING TO TEACH"
"You guys are actually all dumbasses. I can't even do this shit anymore how are you all so stupid?"
"ALRIGHT, LISTEN UP ASSHOLES, WE'RE GOING TO DO THIS AND WE'RE GOING TO GET IT RIGHT!"
It eventually just became a chaotic free-for-all but with poorly executed notes instead of punches and kicks, because they weren't doing a very good job. XD
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