my band of 146 people is approximatly 1/4 of the entire school
We decied whos cool.

here.. losers get picked on, cool people get priase. just depends on the person, not so much that youre in band

Well, my school i guess is like everyone elses. The drumline is looked at as being one of the coolest groups in school. As for the band, they get looked at as being "wierd" and "fruity" partially for our show this year which is a really girlish sounding show until we bust out our drum solo. One of the reasons the drumline is looked as being cool is because we dont have a good relationship with our football team, but instead we have one with our cheerleaders. I personally enjoy things the way they are

from my experience, being a member of hs marching band and then an instructor, there are a few issues that result in a lack of respect for the band.
1. snugglebunny of kids don't look at band from a musical aspect. they just view it as something to kill time and to get them out of class, which takes away from the kids who are doing it for the aesthetics

2. schools don't support music in the same way they do athletics because they see it as something for the kids who don't play sports to do.

it's the responsiblity of the directors and the kids to take it as seriously as a football player and to display confidence and to excell.

Up here at App. the football team and the band have a wonderful relationship. And from what I can tell the band is pretty much respected by everyone. After our football team won the national championship, the athletic department offered to either get the band rings or help send us to London.

ah man im so glad someone made a topic like this, at our school its different than from what ive read on this post...the football team HATES us. but thats just because were a small school, and our football team sucks, so does every other sport team. I live in Piedmont Oklahoma, were the best band in our divisoin in the state, not just class. but division too, and the football team hates us. we know for a fact that its just because there jelious of us (im friends with a few of them and they told me that, plus they used to be in band) and tehy take it out on us by doing things to us, like making fun of us...excessivly, and more recently they put birdseed in our section of the stands and by the time friday came there was bird poop everywere...and i mean like...the most bird crap you have ever seen...ever .... sometimes i hate it so much but we just won class 4a state championchips and got second in our division...by a tenth of a point. and we would have won but tehres always a judge that hates our director, )his name is Mr. Zook and hes one of the best, we think of him as the best, director in the state) and he put us in 8th....so pretty much what im saying is, i know how you feel, our whole school (expecially people in sports, becuase all our sports people suck, literaly) hate us, and i know how you feel. i hate it sometimes but im grateful to be in band


but there are those select few who respect us and actually think were cool. i love them

sorry my post was so long,
~Brandini

Thank you for that explanation, I'd say my school is a happy medium between you and the other posts.

Everyone at my school thinks the marching band is full of losers.
It is quite annoying.

It's funny, whenever I meet someone new and they realise that I'm on the drumline, I usually get something to the extent of "Yo, that's so tite. I saw you banging them drums at the football game."

Not only does my whole school make fun of the band, my whole community doesn't gave a (fill in the blank) about it either. We're a very small band and if there's like a holiday or something where half the band can't make it and we would only have 20-30 people, we won't play. (this only happens once in a great while , like possibly on Thanksgiving games, and we only play pregame anyway) and the community dog if we don't preform but if we do, half of them aren't there to see it anyway, and the ones that are don't even care.