Parents, Students Upset, Teary Over Assistant Band Director Appointment

Tuesday's school board meeting was standing-room only—with several people speaking on the issue.

A former Big Mac Band Boosters officer stood up in the waning minutes of Tuesday’s Canon-McMillan school board meeting to tell directors she can see the program “just going down the drains.” “You have upset a lot of people—live with it,” Donna Click told the board during the standing-room-only meeting at which a new elementary music teacher was hired—but not the one favored by band parents and students, one of whom presented directors with a petition to hire someone else. That candidate, some said, was familiar with the program and the students in the band from her work as an elementary music teacher with the district—and that appointing her to assistant band director position would lend “consistency” after the resignation of Michael …

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