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Who is Street? Cox will start and Keen is ready to step in if needed.

Naturally, Northam's illogical Executive Orders will receive the most attention as they pertain to high school sports, given the nature of this Board and what interests the majority.  But the arts have been done a grievous injustice by how these orders have been constructed.  Losing a solid year of music (choir, band, or orchestra) is a severe detriment for the kids' musicianship in addition to how it impacts college prospects of doing the same.  Those kids work just as hard as any athlete on any team to hone their craft, and they've been virtually forbidden from it.

I honestly haven't given it much thought until now.  Human nature being what it is, our concerns tend to be self-serving to a large degree.  At least in the sense of where we are in our daily lives and how "COVID times" have affected those daily lives.  My larger concern at the moment is pretty far from high school sports.  My daughters haven't been in band, class or extracurricular, since March 23, 2020.  To say the least, I am disappointed in the Galax School System.  They are seemingly bending over backward to make sure games are played, practices are held, and conditioning is undertaken for athletics.  They have yet to make any such concession for other 50% of the student body that don't play sports.  My daughters have put in a lot of hard work, practice and expense in an activity they thoroughly enjoy.  My oldest daughter plays 7 instruments (guitar, mandolin, piano, ukulele, banjo, fiddle, sax).  Her frustration is overwhelming.  My younger daughter is frustrated but she is far more laid-back.  She doesn't show it as much as the older one.  
There is no excuse for these kids to not be able to get together in small groups to play music.  Galax could and should do better!