Do college marching band students party a lot? Is there lots of alcohol consumption within the marching band parties?
My son will be going to college soon and I'm just wondering what the scene might be like.
Thanks
I'm in a college choir. I just turned 20.
My choir director started crying and threw a chair during our rehearsal. Not at anybody specifically, but she threw it. She's had some personal stuff going on and she said she is tired of us not working hard.
I know this sounds like a fake post but I promise it's real. I grew up in a violent house so I have no idea what's normal or not.
The director announced the show for next year. A lot of the kids hate it. Like, considering quitting because it really is that bad.
I'm not just talking about my own two children. About half the band. (And I'm a former member.) I agree it's pretty lame. And I'm not sure that I - as an active member of the boosters - can agree to spend hard-earned money on arranging and building props and buying silks and whatever for a show design that 50% of the kids loathe.
If it were just my own offspring, I'd tell them to suck it up and hope that the show design is better than they expect. But it's not just my crotch goblins. I am that one who drives a lot of kids at 2 am after football games. Those kids are messaging Miss Rachel and asking "doesn't this sound lame?"
It does.
Usually there's a vote for the next year's show. Not this time. And I don't know exactly how to address this without giving my kids permission to quit or just making them a target if I criticize.
Any advice?