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# Santa Monica Students pay their own way
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/santa-monica-students-pay-their-own-way-editor/
- Published: 2003-03-04T16:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T01:43:24.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Malibu, #archive-import

How could anyone be a member of this community and not notice the school district’s music students selling gift wrap and candy, holding garage and bake sales and silent auctions, running a weekly Bingo game for years, and pleading for financial support from the City Council and business community? That’s what pays for their trips — supplemented by large contributions of time and money from music parents, who pay their own way as chaperones.

I’m sure the Santa Monica-Malibu music students would be happy to send Mr. Trybus a postcard from their various performance locations, if he would kindly reciprocate with one from whatever planet he’s been living on for the past two or three decades.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on March 4, 2003.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/030403.pdf?ref=smdp.com)