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Garden City Telegram USD 457 Board of Education decided not to follow staff s recommendation to remove fifth grade band and orchestra at Monday s regular Board meeting. Orchestra and band are elective courses which meet every other day, alternating with physical education. Students are introduced to instruments and the beginning skills to play them in the courses. The request for the deletion of the course came due to bussing students from Abe Hubert, Plymell and Jennie Barker schools to Bernadine Sitts and from Charles O. Stones to Kenneth Henderson. The classes are large and hard to accommodate. Gina Galpin, principal at Bernadine Sitts said the classes are large, some have over 60 students and are hard to accommodate. ....