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Related: About this forumUIL to require physicals for marching bands starting Aug. 1
Beginning Aug. 1, University Interscholastic League marching band students will need to pass a physical entering their first and third years of high school to participate.
The new rule also applies to any seventh- or eighth-grade student participating in marching band.
Aaron Turner, band director at Pine Tree High School, said despite some resistance surrounding the new rule, he believes its a positive change that can help students.
This is just another way for us to look at and see if our students are healthy and are they healthy enough to be on the marching fields, he said. The physicals can open up ways to help our students in ways we didnt know before.
Read more: https://www.news-journal.com/news/local/uil-to-require-physicals-for-marching-bands-starting-aug/article_d351e224-66a0-11e9-b5ea-4b75140b3f03.html
MadDAsHell
(2,067 posts)get the red out
(13,468 posts)I wonder how a situation like this would be approached by the new rules. Yes, it is a university band, but music education starts long before that (if the school makes it available at all).
dhill926
(16,364 posts)it's a much more strenuous activity than most people realize, especially during summer rehearsals in Texas...