The Parade

LM's band teacher is one of the few teachers that has ever challenged LM. He pushes. He won't settle for getting-by. He wants LM's best. And LM respects him for it. So do I. He has always said that he hopes that LM will eventually attend the high school in town where he is band director. It isn't likely, for a variety of reasons, but we haven't burst his bubble of hopes on that one yet.

And while I understand that the high school band he directs is undergoing rebuilding years, and I can understand the significant changes that have already taken place, it is difficult as a parent to want your child to participate in a high school band that had to join with the middle school band kids in order to have enough to march. The same ones who had t-shirts emblazoned with their school name as a uniform, the same ones who had two evening practices to learn how to march.

This one:

When this is the other high school's marching band.