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Originally Posted by Lathum
So my son is in the marching band and yesterday we had our annual rivalry game. We were the away team so our band does the pre game performance. We went on a little late due to the weather. As our band was performing on the field the home team decided to let their players take the field and they ran through our band, knocking into and over several band kids. Several band members, my son included, claim the coaches were yelling at the kids to get the fuck off their field. I was 5 feet away. It was appalling. My cousin was with me, she is an attorney and said it was absolutely assault. I know of at least 2 parents pressing charges, one of whoms kid has bruises. I immediately started a facebook post about it on our towns page and it's blown up. I have had 3 different media outlets contact me as well as countless parents who are all planning on calling the super, AD, and principale for the school. It was horrendous.
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Yeah, I think pressing charges needs to be done. I would assume some videoed the incident on their phones?
Not saying there is any justification but visiting teams bring their bands to road games? Interesting. Never happened in my day or when my kids were in school in Iowa. Home team band played the anthem and probably a half time show, and that was it. Maybe if you're playing at the state finals the band goes? Haven't had a team make the finals, so really don't know.
