Laura Crook Posted November 30, 2023 Report Share Posted November 30, 2023 The Round Rock High School Color Guard was informed by the band director today in class that he is terminating the color guard program after this year. He is replacing them with a dance team. My daughter started color guard in the 7th grade and is now a freshman. She was planning on doing guard in college. Now she feels like her entire world is ending. She eats breaths and sleeps guard. It’s all she does. In less than 5 minutes one man destroyed her goals, hopes, and dreams. He didn’t bat an eye or even appear to care. 45 girls are now devastated. Has anyone else experienced this? This band made finals at state, boa super regional in San Antonio and at grand nationals. I think I will probably pull my kid and send her to another school. Kids in high school can be really mean. When your kid finds where she fits in after being excluded and picked on and then that is taken away is detrimental to a teenager’s emotional health. Please help me. Samuel Culper, gregorydf01 and J-Mike16 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gregorydf01 Posted November 30, 2023 Report Share Posted November 30, 2023 Just saw this petition getting passed around called "Save the Color Guard": https://sign.moveon.org/petitions/round-rock-color-guard-gets-to-keep-their-equipment?share=37b2b3f7-c859-492f-881b-bae6d3d3daa0&source=email-share-button&utm_medium=&utm_source=email Laura Crook and Parkwoodmom 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FormerWildcat Posted December 1, 2023 Report Share Posted December 1, 2023 4 hours ago, gregorydf01 said: Just saw this petition getting passed around called "Save the Color Guard": https://sign.moveon.org/petitions/round-rock-color-guard-gets-to-keep-their-equipment?share=37b2b3f7-c859-492f-881b-bae6d3d3daa0&source=email-share-button&utm_medium=&utm_source=email Already at 5K signatures, close to double RR's total student population. I think we see some Austin area news coverage tonight regarding this situation. gregorydf01 and Laura Crook 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tubalord11 Posted December 1, 2023 Report Share Posted December 1, 2023 I've heard that they decided to keep the guard while adding the dance team? Hoping this is true, think it's the best thing they could have done. gregorydf01 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlphaOmega Posted December 1, 2023 Report Share Posted December 1, 2023 It's official, they have decided to keep the guard and add the dance team. All I'll say is this: As a band director, your main priority should be students, not scores. To all those who defended Round Rock's guard either on social media, here, Reddit, or anywhere else, you are all rock stars. I am so happy to hear that you succeeded, and good luck with your future seasons! Laura Crook and Tubalord11 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post LeanderMomma Posted December 1, 2023 Popular Post Report Share Posted December 1, 2023 On 11/29/2023 at 11:17 PM, Laura Crook said: The Round Rock High School Color Guard was informed by the band director today in class that he is terminating the color guard program after this year. He is replacing them with a dance team. My daughter started color guard in the 7th grade and is now a freshman. She was planning on doing guard in college. Now she feels like her entire world is ending. She eats breaths and sleeps guard. It’s all she does. In less than 5 minutes one man destroyed her goals, hopes, and dreams. He didn’t bat an eye or even appear to care. 45 girls are now devastated. Has anyone else experienced this? This band made finals at state, boa super regional in San Antonio and at grand nationals. I think I will probably pull my kid and send her to another school. Kids in high school can be really mean. When your kid finds where she fits in after being excluded and picked on and then that is taken away is detrimental to a teenager’s emotional health. Please help me. You absolutely hit the nail on the head with the entire issue behind Mobley cutting the guard with seemingly little thought to the effect it would have on the kids in the guard program. He evidently never considered the impact his decision could have on so many young people! I’m so happy that the meeting with the parents, guard members, Ms. Stone (the guard director) and Mr. Mobley last night resulted in the decision to keep the guard and to just add a dance team. As a former color guard and band kid myself, and mother of a former marching band kiddo, I completely related to everything you so eloquently said here. I don’t think the director understood the gravity of the decision he had made and I am happy that he changed his mind after hearing from everyone. I am also absolutely thrilled with how the marching arts community came together to help the Dragon Guard fight for the activity that means so much to all of is. We had groups from all over the country sharing and signing that petition yesterday!! Bravo guard world. Bravo!!! Laura Crook, Tubalord11, TWHSPercDad and 4 others 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Laura Crook Posted December 4, 2023 Author Popular Post Report Share Posted December 4, 2023 On 11/30/2023 at 9:48 PM, Tubalord11 said: I've heard that they decided to keep the guard while adding the dance team? Hoping this is true, think it's the best thing they could have done. We are so happy with this resolution! Thanks for all support! utee94, gregorydf01, Tubalord11 and 2 others 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BandFan95 Posted December 5, 2023 Report Share Posted December 5, 2023 Holy crap! His problem isn't the guard. The guard at Round Rock is fantastic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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