Marching Band Parade

If I have noticed lately, more and more schools in my district put a marching band as a flagship extra-curricular activity of the schools. So many assumptions in community, if the school has not marching band, the quality of the school was questionable. Marching Band has been used as a tool to attract more prospective students to want to go to school.

But no doubt, it's works. Schools with Marching Band extra-curricular got more students than schools did not have Marching Band. With this reality, finally every school focus on compete showed their Marching Band. This was good for student as well not. Good if the school has the capacity to hold it, from financial issues to teacher capabilities. But really problematic if it was imposed.

For example, although the government has eliminate school fees for elementary level, parents often have to spent additional funds for several purposes beyond the basic needs of studying process. Marching Band just only a example of the case,  many more in different case. But not all schools did that, but I was seeing the trend.

The positive side. Now, a lot of students can playing a musical instrument and became interested with musical instrument. In addition, many School Marching Band competitions has been held, thus providing experiences for students. The competition usually held when Independence Day and another great day, but now feels routine because I can saw the competition every month.