Loved being drum major my senior year. Only had to carry that drum major baton to the football games and the few parades we did.
At least at the basketball games we got to wear jeans and a golf shirt and I got to use a regular baton. The director never went to any of the basketball games, it was beneath him or something. He didn't go to any of the gigs my senior year because the director from the year before set all the gigs up. The Jazz band played for both the Miss teenage pagent for the city and then the state. Director from year before had us all join the Musicians Union so we could get paid too. The jazz band and the ensembles that played gigs had to get the music together and practice themselves because the new director wouldn't have anything to do with it. He was a major jerk that didn't care about the students at all. Stupid band parents association deserved what they got when they refused to accept the most excellently qualified but black directer the school system was going to bring in to replace the director that was leaving.