Scott resigned officially on Friday and abandoned us.
Practice on Thursday night was brutal, scary, sad, and just... uncomfortable. After the final drop of a sabre, Scott screamed that practice was over, threw the iPod we bought him down on the bleachers, and stormed out of the gym, leaving us all in terrified silence. He came back and we talked about what was wrong sort of. Shea started crying and flat out told Scott that he was too hard on us and hardly told us anything nice. At that point he told us to go home.
Julie, Natalie, Victor, Harri, Sarah, Heather, Jamie, Megan, and I all went to Canes after practice to discuss what just happened. We were all like, in such high spirits and so friendly to each other and had such a good time trying to process what just happened. Then on Friday, Daffinee sat us down and explained to us what was going on... We either pack up the show and call it quits, find a new director, or reconcile with Scott. Frankly, we all feel abandoned and pissed off. Daffers understood and it was nice knowing that the band directors, especially Sealy, are all taking action to make sure we're taken care of on Monday.
Today we were supposed to have six hours of practice and the LISD Preview show tonight, but Daffinee said we couldn't go, which was sad. I was so excited to perform a winterguard show again, especially since I haven't been on the floor (besides pulling it out!) since sophomore year. I'm just really disappointed in Scott for not understanding us. The relationship between a student and teacher is a partnership. Obviously Scott's pushing us and being mean to us to make us better, but it's bringing us down and he should see that and maybe alter his teaching style a bit if he wants to get work done. Like I don't know what's happened! Ever since coming back from the break, he's been such a dick to us.
He sent Heather a message on Facebook saying that the varsity kids meant a lot to him and he loved us blah blah blah and had fun teaching us. bullshit, don't try that, Scott. You complained about guard members quitting all year and now you're calling it quits? You called Dakota a flake because he had to quit because he didn't have the money to be in the program? No Scott, you're the flake.
So tonight we're having an end of the year party to celebrate our friendship and unity and remind ourselves that even though the circumstances are awful right now, we still have each other.
Oh, and I finally got my Nightwish calendar in the mail and it sucks. The boxes are WAY too small to write anything in and the boxes are dark grey :/ Time to go buy a tiny silver Sharpie? Nightwish fail. And there's hardly and pictures of the band, mostly just art from shirts and album inlays and stuff. Fail, Nightwish. I still love you guys.
xx And Now Whatever Way Our Stories End, I Know You Have Re-written Mine Marz
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