I have watched the video from the MT Band. I am so over joyed that the band is starting to rebuild. I am thankful for all of those that have helped and hopefully will continue to help with the rebuilding. I cried when I heard that ( Off The Line) song because I can still play it in my sleep even though I have been out of school for almost 25 yrs now. That got me thinking about band and what it was doing since I graduated from HS. So I searched Facebook and found a few Music and Band Related pages. As I was reading the posts on those pages I felt like crying. It is a sad thing to know that a music program that was so good had been let go or cut to the bone. When I started thinking about that, it lead me to the reason why I stayed in HS. If it had not been for that music program I would never had completed HS. That(the music program) was the one place where I felt accepted, not judged for how I looked or how much money I had, not looked down upon. I felt that my voice was heard through the music. The music program was my happy place, if you will. My grades were very good while in the band and were good for the rest of the year. The band is where I had friends that didnt judge me, outside of band I was just a ghost in the school where no one saw me or looked at me. All of that is true for me but how many other students was/is this true for. I know that I was not the only one who felt that way back then, nor was I the first to feel that way. AS for how I feel today, well let me say that I no longer feel that way but I feel that there are many other students out there that feel the way I did while in HS. I am not saying that the music program is the end all be all of life, but I am sure that there were and are students in any of the ARTS programs that feel the way I did. It is a sad day that those programs are being cut or removed completely because these students that feel the way I did just might not make it through HS. My greatest memory of being in band was everything, practice, games, competitions. The feeling that there was a kind of family bond, a feeling of being welcomed and wanted. To those that dont know me well sorry for the ranting but those who know me know how I have always felt about the MTHS Panther Marching Band. To those that are helping to rebuild the band I say THANK YOU. May the Panther Marching Band get a new and fresh start and live on.
Posted on: Sat, 04 Oct 2014 21:31:22 +0000
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