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To shed a bit of light of this situation (not Wakeland directly), but some directors want their kids in the proper headspace before a performance and it usually led to militaristic rules (I know pre 2017 the LISD district had a rule, or at least Hebron, where kids couldnt talk on a bus ride to any 1 day competition, pretty brutal) or implemented rules that attempted to stop bad behavior before it starts, which while good on paper just makes the whole fun of band non-existent. The kids will still like the directors, but there are so many rules even for sitting in the stands that it ruins a lot of the extra relaxed fun from football games, post performance, and in general causes persistent stress, it happened with my high school band and its likely a similar conversation with Wakeland

Forney making state finals in 2021 after not advancing to finales for over a decade. Still glad I was a part of that. We went from 8th in finals at 2021 to 4th place in just two years.

I was going to say something similar about Frisco Schools, the district gives them almost nothing, and end up having to do big fundraisers to raise anything. When I went to Wakeland a few years ago we were raising less than 100k, which was barely enough to get by with. Not trying to bash on other programs by any means but money doesn't mean a program is good or bad, but I will say that schools that have loads of money tend to be better than schools with none.