Crazy times. The school where I work is being attacked right and left. From racism to threats to sexual harassment... the list goes on and on. For safety sake I won't go into a whole lot more until hopefully one or more of these issues are resolved, but I will say don't get too excited. What people are screaming and up in arms about here happened daily at our local high schools. This is just a situation where extremists who have an ax to grind are spinning hard to do just that. Currently, what is "right" and what is "easy" are on polar opposites of the spectrum.
As for my world, the honor band phenomenon is passed. What a great run though. Good music, met great people, a wonderful time altogether. Exhausting, but great.
Here's the story that I will share and I hope you can get a chuckle out of teenage kids being stupid teenage kids.
This past Monday I took one of the bands to a regional competition where I fully expected them to perform well. This was a regional qualifying festival and if they performed well, we could have been offered a bid to state festival. Ok, so we spend the early afternoon on a state school campus getting lunch before all the activities begun. During this time, a few male students frequented the restroom. At many colleges prophylactics are sold in the restrooms. This one was no exception. These kiddos decided to try it thinking that it was a gag ( protected kids) When they got it, they then had to figure out what they should do with it. After microseconds of thought, they decided it would be humorous to elongate it and put it into one of their female friend's case. They would be around her when she opened it have a good laugh and move on with their day. Sadly, we did not stay in the location that the disclosure would have taken place. We moved to a different location. One where they were not all that close together. In transit, the item shifted ONTO her instrument. And, as it was a lubricated variety ( classy school) it congealed, giving it the appearance that it had been used.
This all manifested itself in the warm up room. The girl opened her case and was promptly shocked and nearly vomited and swore that she was not going to play her instrument that day ( and hasn't for a few). A freshman, thinking he was being helpful, brought the case up to me, IN FRONT OF THE ENTIRE ENSEMBLE, HOLDING UP THE ITEM, and shows me what the girl found in the case. I turned around, gave the mess to the assistant band director. My assistant then aids the girl, wipes off her instrument IN FRONT OF THE ENTIRE ENSEMBLE, while we warm-up. We then walk from the warm up room to the performance area. During this time, the kids were talking to one another and the situation spread around the band faster than the Hayman fire.
End result..... our performance was pretty freakin' rough.
I thought condoms were supposed to keep you out of trouble???
Anyway, we have since handled the situation to the credit of good but stupid kids and gracious parents.
The glories of education.
Cookies done. Gotta run :-)
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