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Originally Posted by Takeda Shingen
Sorry to jump back into this, but it is worth nothing that it likely isn't at their own expense. The band has his own budget with money acquired through fundraisers. Part of that money pays for transportation costs to competitions (which are not covered by the school budget), marching band staff salaries (only the director is paid by the school) and flag, prop, and guard outfit costs. The materiels are purchased through this budget and the students are measured. The outfits for the guard are then made by a group of parent volunteers. Our group was call the sewing committee, which was certainly an apt name. They would make all of the flags and outfits for color guard.
That, of course, leads to the fact that the parents of these performers were very much aware of what the theme of this show was. Many of them worked from within to help it along.
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Fundraisers for my co-workers daughter in the marching band is for transportation to competitions. There is not any uniform changes or having to have a committee making uniforms or outfits for the guard. Often there are car wash fund raiser to get money for plane tickets to HI. Not uniforms. At any rate, every school runs things differently.
Just because the parent was aware of the theme of the show does not mean they agreed with said theme. I get the impression these types of shows with similar themes stem from this particular school frequently. If that is the case I guess a performance of Caligula would pass muster.