Just Found Out How Much Marching Band Costs and I'm…
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Just Found Out How Much Marching Band Costs and I'm Stunned
I just got this news and I just need to vent somewhere:
My second child is starting high school next year and is hell bent on joining the marching band. I was in marching band myself when I was in high school and I wasn't against her joining. The discipline would be good for her.
Then I found out how much it costs.
To join marching band you are required to pay a nonrefundable fee of $450. I was absolutely shocked at that price. I knew there would be costs involved, even though marching band participation was free (minus the cost of the t-shirt) back in my day, and I was fine with that. But $450 is two weeks of groceries for us. By comparison, most sports at the high school cost between $75 and $150.
In addition to the high price sticker is the amount of time families are expected to sacrifice to this. They start practices in late April and go all summer long, including three weeks of camp that you are not allowed to miss. That basically screws any ability for us to go out of state to visit family like we normally do.
We're going to have to discuss as a family but my flabbers have definitely been ghasted.
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I just got this news and I just need to vent somewhere:
My second child is starting high school next year and is hell bent on joining the marching band. I was in marching band myself when I was in high school and I wasn't against her joining. The discipline would be good for her.
Then I found out how much it costs.
To join marching band you are required to pay a nonrefundable fee of $450. I was absolutely shocked at that price. I knew there would be costs involved, even though marching band participation was free (minus the cost of the t-shirt) back in my day, and I was fine with that. But $450 is two weeks of groceries for us. By comparison, most sports at the high school cost between $75 and $150.
In addition to the high price sticker is the amount of time families are expected to sacrifice to this. They start practices in late April and go all summer long, including three weeks of camp that you are not allowed to miss. That basically screws any ability for us to go out of state to visit family like we normally do.
We're going to have to discuss as a family but my flabbers have definitely been ghasted.
#relationships
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