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Here's the email to the directors from the county office
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INTEROFFICE MEMORANDUM
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To: High School Principals & High School Band Directors
From: Ms. Kendra March, Deputy Superintendent, School Leadership and Operational Support
Through: Dr. Cheryl L. H. Atkinson, Superintendent
Subject: Marching Band
Date: December 7, 2011
Please read the important information below from Ms. March and forward this information on to your Band Directors.
Effective immediately! ALL Marching Band activities must cease and desist, pending further investigation regarding possible inappropriate activity involving Band Directors, Advisors, Volunteers and Band students.
If there is an after school band performance or practice scheduled within the next 30 days, you must receive approval from Ms. Kendra March, Deputy Superintendent in order to proceed. This does not apply to Band classes during the instructional day.
There will be a mandatory meeting for ALL High School Band Directors and High School Principals following the winter break. The date and time with be forthcoming.
Kendra D. March
Deputy Superintendent, School Leadership and Operational Support
Wow.
this stuff is starting to REAK HAVOC...i got a feeling this is ONLY the beginning......our beloved HBCU/BLACK college band experience is really fina suffer!!! smgdh....
THIS SHIT REALLY PISSES ME OFF...to make me wonder what my future will look like in this Profession as a Music Educator smh!!!
Our experience is not "fina suffer". This stuff should have been dealt with a LONG TIME AGO!!!! It's time to bring these barbaric practices to an end...and not just in bands but in black greek life also and anywhere else where these practices are found to exist.
Kourtney "Da Rev" Smith said:
i feel what you saying i really do....... i want my experience to be available for generations of students to come...and lets remember HAZING IS A CHOICE on both parties!!!
Underage Thinker said:
Damn whatever happened to PUSH-UPS...mfers dont make nobody do push-ups...laps...6 inches...run the lines....whatever happened to those kinds of punishments hell that would be enuff for me not to make that mistake again