Seperate busses for boys and girls?

[TRtrumpet]

This year our band directors decided to seperate the boys and girls by putting them on sepperate busses for when we go to games, trips, contest, etc. We've never done anything TERRIBLE on our busses... well nothing bad enough for them to seperate us, but they did. Does your band do this? Our assistant director said it was "standard practice" in almost every band now so I'm just wondering.

[supermanuel]

we sign up for busses however we please...seniors one day, juniors the next etc. we get to pick but once it's on it's final, unless you find someone to switch with

 

to answer your question, we have co-ed busses

[Claritone]

^^^ Same

[Band-Chica]

Our band directors assign us to a bus. There are senior, junior, sophmore, and freshmen busses. If one bus (except the last one) isn't completely filled, then people get moved onto the next bus depending on how much room is left. Last year, the bus I was on wasn't filled up enough, so we had a lot of freshmen on our bus.

[sax5warrior]

  supermanuel said:

we sign up for busses however we please...seniors one day, juniors the next etc. we get to pick but once it's on it's final, unless you find someone to switch with

exactly.

[Xenon]

Y'all have enough people to have more than one bus?

[Lustra.exe]

  TRtrumpet said:

This year our band directors decided to seperate the boys and girls by putting them on sepperate busses for when we go to games, trips, contest, etc. We've never done anything TERRIBLE on our busses... well nothing bad enough for them to seperate us, but they did. Does your band do this? Our assistant director said it was "standard practice" in almost every band now so I'm just wondering.

we have boy-girl busses. you'll get used to it.

 

it's not that big of a deal unless you make it that way for yourself.

[TRtrumpet]

  Xenon said:

Y'all have enough people to have more than one bus?

Haha actually no. It's probably gonna end up being like one person per seat lol. Oh well.

[Aegis Fang]

  supermanuel said:

we sign up for busses however we please...seniors one day, juniors the next etc. we get to pick but once it's on it's final, unless you find someone to switch with

 

to answer your question, we have co-ed busses

+1

[Hawkeye]

Standard practice?

 

 

Not too many schools do it where I am (none that I can think of, which is a lot), co-ed busses for here.

[Lustra.exe]

  Hawkeye said:

Standard practice?

 

 

Not too many schools do it where I am (none that I can think of, which is a lot), co-ed busses for here.

connally does. and we are about 2.5 blocks away.

[whitewing09]

  TRtrumpet said:

This year our band directors decided to seperate the boys and girls by putting them on sepperate busses for when we go to games, trips, contest, etc. We've never done anything TERRIBLE on our busses... well nothing bad enough for them to seperate us, but they did. Does your band do this? Our assistant director said it was "standard practice" in almost every band now so I'm just wondering.

werent you the one that did it -cough- on the bus

[TRtrumpet]

Umm... no.

[whitewing09]

  TRtrumpet said:

[Danpod]

Most bands have boys and girls integrated on the buses with the exception of the colorguard. The colorguard should get their own bus because they almost always have to change on board. I'd hate for some Freshman to get his mind warped while he watches 40 guard girls strip in front of him!!!!

[TRtrumpet]

  Hawkeye said:

Standard practice?

 

 

Not too many schools do it where I am (none that I can think of, which is a lot), co-ed busses for here.

I havn't seen many other schools besides us do it either. There wasting gas and stuff lol. Were like 40 people we don't need 2 busses plus it's boring without the girls.

[acsc1312]

  TRtrumpet said:

This year our band directors decided to seperate the boys and girls by putting them on sepperate busses for when we go to games, trips, contest, etc. We've never done anything TERRIBLE on our busses... well nothing bad enough for them to seperate us, but they did. Does your band do this? Our assistant director said it was "standard practice" in almost every band now so I'm just wondering.

umm well we never had seperate busses while i was in high school, but it prolly couldve been a good idea, cause well...let's just say there are a lot of stories of stuff on busses. Oh, and we had the occasional "hand check"...weird... lol

[QuadraticBeats]

  TRtrumpet said:

Does your band do this? Our assistant director said it was "standard practice" in almost every band now so I'm just wondering.

I'd say that your bands' policy is the exception rather than the rule. I love it when they try to make up reasons for stuff they shouldn't be able to get away with legally... bring up the threat of a lawsuit and their case crumples. Anyhow, my pity goes out for you guys... every band does their own thing, I guess, but it's still a pain when band directors think they can get away with whatever they feel like should be a policy. Or worse yet, school administration... or further up... politicians slapping around educational rules for credos and usually with worthless means and/or ends (yes, totally unrelated to separate buses for male/female)...

 

For me, I find their audacity more offensive than any codes and policies that they claim to have the power to enforce. But admittedly, there must be rules of some sort when dealing with masses of people.

 

Speaking of which, could anybody here confirm something I heard about school starting after Labor Day next year? It could just be a district thing, but I heard that something along those lines had been passed into law to go into effect next year. If it's true, it might be one of the few better decisions that has been made regarding schools recently (that I know of).

 

It's nice to not have that heat, but it won't be nice if I can't march corps because of school in June.

[Aegis Fang]

well if you think you have it bad... *nothing to do with busses, but still bad nonetheless*

 

my old director is under the impression that his band is too immature handle the CAP to the little bottles of water in the stands, so the parents take them off before they hand the band their water... how retarded is that?

 

And I swear to god I'm not lying

[Aegis Fang]

  acsc1312 said:

umm well we never had seperate busses while i was in high school, but it prolly couldve been a good idea, cause well...let's just say there are a lot of stories of stuff on busses. Oh, and we had the occasional "hand check"...weird... lol

hand check? That must've been before I got to clemens... what do you mean?

[Xenon]

  Danpod said:

I'd hate for some Freshman to get his mind warped while he watches 40 guard girls strip in front of him!!!!

That's right, it should be a Senior.

 

  Quadratic Beats said:

Speaking of which, could anybody here confirm something I heard about school starting after Labor Day next year? It could just be a district thing, but I heard that something along those lines had been passed into law to go into effect next year. If it's true, it might be one of the few better decisions that has been made regarding schools recently (that I know of).

The law (starting with the 2007-2008 school year) is that all schools in Texas must start exactly on the 4th Monday in August (no exceptions anymore), which for next year would be August 27th.

 

  Aegis Fang said:

hand check? That must've been before I got to clemens... what do you mean?

Generally, that rule is that all hands must be visible at all times and that chaperones walk by every once in a while to make sure. This way there's nothing going on under a blanket.

[acsc1312]

  Aegis Fang said:

hand check? That must've been before I got to clemens... what do you mean?

yeah, I think it was when I was a freshman...they chaperones would come around and stuff, and make sure people werent sharing blankets and stuff...and then I guess they just stopped caring, cause it stopped lol

[TRtrumpet]

We never have anykind of handchecks or anything like that, but even if they did as soon as you saw a chaperone coming you would stop doing whatever you were doing under the blanket and pick your hands up so... I don't think that would work.

[MartinHorn]

Sounds kinda dumb to me, but I guess yall can't keep your hands to yourselves.

[Fortisimo]

I think we're talking about more than hands here, but Ok... lol.

 

 

We do our buses by section, so a lot of times they are close to segregated gender-wise, but they aren't purposely setup that way, it just works out as such. Oh, and the colorguard thing? They share a bus with the loading crew which is comprised entirely of freshmen boys, plus one upper classman "equipment Nazi", so I guess mind-warping is not a big concern of ours. I don't think I ever witnessed such travesties (our color-guard, no offense, is not exactly a group I would enjoy seeing such a show of) while I was in loading crew, though. I almost entirely sure they always change before-hand.