Terri Schehr

There’s a band here in Illinois that the band boosters run an arts and craft fair that earns over $100k. Band is an entirely different head... lots of eager parents and fund raising.

I’m confused myself.

I don’t know about anywhere else but the Illinois band shows but when my kid was in band, the band parents would come in for their child’s group and leave immediately afterward. Some of them were fine but others were as annoying as you’ve described.

I just watched 1980 BD last night.

And they were very effective.

To add a little here....I’ve heard the powers-that-be complaining about the ever increasing yearly budgets but they never say this has to stop. They just keep complaining.

I do, too. My head is spinning. 😂

I’m gonna need a remote so I can flip over to the Cubs game.

Some people on here...it could happen.

Shhhhh

My opinion? I don’t think it added much.

All I was thinking, and I said this on my Facebook page, was how much did those cost?

I still have fond memories of my middle school band director, Archie McAllister Jr., lo these many years later. He nurtured many students over the years. And he loved drum corps!

No. But I met Jim in drum corps. 😀

I loved my middle school band director, too! He was a great fan of drum corps back when it wasn’t popular for a band director to be a fan. He’d play old Fleetwoods of Cabs, Sky, and Yankee Rebels for us. Our marching band played Espana Cani and Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White. He arranged for Norwood Park to have camp at our school. I came and watched every day and joined the next September. He changed my life. So never underestimate a middle school band director.