Marian
September 19, 2014, 4:47pm
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When my daughter was in high school marching band, the students were expected to change out of their band uniforms immediately after a competition, on the band bus, in full view of one another. The purpose was to keep the uniforms as clean as possible. And there was no other location available.
<p>That is a completely inappropriate requirement. That is practically an abusive requirement. I would expect parents to protect their kids from such nutty ideas and demand that they come up with an alternative if the goal is to keep the uniforms clean.</p>
<p>At a minimum, they could have had some kind of “sheet set up” and had the boys in the back end and the girls in the front end…but that doesn’t protect them from outsiders looking in thru windows.
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<p>It didn’t matter that much. By the second occasion, all of the girls were wearing t-shirts and gym shorts under their band uniforms. Problem solved. It was only the first time, when they had to strip down to bras and panties, that was awkward.</p>