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bandteacher1 · 02-17-2010, 09:48 AM

Ok. So here's my dilema. Next year, I have a student who's in a wheel chair. That's not the problem. He wants to and in fact he's going to, partcipate in the marching band. This is unexplored lands for me, as I've never had a student in a wheel chair in the marching band. So our (mine and the BPA) major issue is How're we going to get him to and from competitions, as well as up and down from the stands. The Marching band only plays at home games, so that's no problem. We have ramps. However, when we go to other schools for competitions, they do not. One of the BPA members, Paul, is a carpenter by trade. He'll build something, if we can figure out what. One of the suggestions on the table is one of the drum major stands we have. They're specially made to go in the stands, and they provide a stable platform for conducting. Or playing, for our uses. The other part of this is we aren't sure if he should ride with Paul, or on the bus with the rest of the band.

Your thoughts, theories, comments, ideas, complaints, anything else you want to add would be nice. I'm just trying to get some opinions from people who are outside the program, for we're split right down the middle.