oldlou

Bandman brought up a rather delicate subject pertaining to being in a room alone with a student. When I was in high school we had a very bad band director. One of the reasons he lost his job with the schools was his desire to have a radical performing marching band. It was destroying instruments at a rapid rate. This was only the tip of the iceberg.
While giving a private percussion lesson to one of the 15 year old girls in our band she dropped a drumstick. The teacher picked it up and in so doing, pulled her skirt hem above her waist with the drumstick. Another teacher walked into the bandroom at that instant and heard him make a VERY inappropriate remark to the girl, while her skirt was raised. We never saw him in the school again. I happened upon him where he was working as a barber in a downtown hotel barber shop a short time later. He ended up losing his career, marriage, home, and reputation.
For those of us who teach, it behooves us to behave in a manner that is MOST proper with our students.

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