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It was very depressing. Next eyar is gonna be sooo different...

First of all, we got another new guard isntructor. she looks like a whore.

Also, our principle quit last amrching season. We just now got a new one, and he is changing a lot. he has cracked down hard on the drug problem at our school. He is definately good for our school. He also supports fine arts, especially band.

New football coach. Our old one got our school to state championships the past couple years. And our old one was in drumline in highschool. we had a tradition where on Homecoming he would play the fight song on his special designated snare drum with the band.

Now the biggest part of the changes:
OUR BD IS MOVING!!!!! He is leaving us for the state capital city and switching to middle school band.
Hes been in our band for 7 years now. He has brought our program sooo far! When he came, band was literally a joke. kids took it because it was constant subs, no permanant teacher. They could do whatever. Teachers ran from that position. Until our bd came. When he first got there, he was right out of college. Worried, the school staff asked the choir director to keep a secret eye on him. She knew he was fine by tthe 2nd day. He walked in and whipped them into shape. he toelrated nothign. he got rid of all the ad kids who didn't want to be there. 35 people were left. With those 35 people, he has brough our band to the top 10 in the entire state in our division. We now have around 80 people, and we will only get larger since this years sneior band population is 4. So we will loose 4 next year and gain 20+.
Anyway, this past season we got a superior at this particular festival for the first time in 20 years. All because our bd had managed to control those students his first year. He gets stuff done while making us laugh. i love him. He is by far my favorite teacher.

And now he is leaving. And we don't have a replacement yet. Because of budget cuts, a lot of teachers were let go. some were promised a new teaching job at a different school. According to law, they have to see if there is a qualfied teacher for our band in that group first. If there is, law requires we take that person. Whether they be a good bd or not. If there is not a qualified teacher in that pool of teachers, then our bd is gonna help interview new bds to find the best one for us.


I do really like soemthing he said when he first told us he was elaving:
"I did not play the music. I did not step foot on the competition field. It was all you. If you work hard like you did this year, it doesn't matter who your director is. Its all you. All i do is make sure you have somethign to work on."

This year has changed soo much. But I know that if we all approach it right, we can still ahve a good time. We wills till be a family. My camp was compeltely different from past years, and some people hated it because they approached it wrong. Lets just hope things go well with this...

hey. sorry about what happened. but let me tell yea somethin. i jsut found out on june 2nd that my bd was leaving us. everyone was asking why i wasn't crying or anything like that i told them i havent been able to cry that much cause of my eyes, and i can only cry if something really upsets me. i feel your pain, and im a senior this year, i thought i had everything firgured out, but then my bd got a job offering over at vista murrieta, cause the bd died this past year, and now we have no idea if were gonna have a bd or not. but our principal told us that if he didnt find one that he would personally take over our program. if you want to know more and how i can help you cope with is just message me ill be happy to talk to you. sasukefan1234 heart keep strong! you'll pull through

I know exactly how you feel.
Our band had an amazing director. He was so well-educated, super nice, hilarious, and a professional drill writer.
He was just great. He taught everyone sooo much about music.
With him we almost always got first place, 1 ratings, etc.
We were the best band in our class and could beat the AAA and AAAA bands in competition with ease, and we were only A one year and AA another.
Then he left us after our best and most rewarding year yet. With no warning or anything. He just moved on.
It was really really hard and 3 years later we still haven't really moved past it.

We got a new director that was really good after him.
We still got grand champion awards and stuff.
But then he slept with the senior piccolo player and got fired.
Now we have another new director, and he's changing everything.
It's hard to go through and we've lost members because they don't think he will be good enough. :/

So I know what it's like to lose a director that you really like.
It's super tough, but there's nothing you can do about it.
You just have to stay strong and work with everyone else in the band to stay positive and try to keep things as normal as you can.
Like your director said, it IS all you that makes the band.
I hope everything works out okay for your band! heart

Ouch! I'm sorry to hear that. Change is never fun, especially change away from something that's always so great!

We're losing our Percussion director and most of our guard staff next year. sad Our BD, who came my freshman year, has been little short of awful, and the only logical person left will be our Jazz director. *sigh*