LPHS students want a marching band

LPHS students want a marching band

Iowa State University marching band plays at a sporting event.

Kristen Miller, Ranger Review Reporter

Lewis-Palmer High School offers everything from clubs like reading club to AP courses like AP Literature. What it doesn’t have but should is a marching band.

Many students at LP wonder why there is no marching band. It is very expensive and time consuming. Uniforms would cost a fortune, and there would have to be a coordinator to do the practices, and music would be a huge expense because it is unlike any other music that bands such as Symphonic or Jazz play.

Colleges across the United States have marching bands. Many high schools have marching bands as well. Marching band isn’t just a club; it’s a way to show off at sporting events and to support the school. It’s a way of expressing pride in the school.

Having a marching band at the high school would help students that are going to colleges with band scholarships. Students wouldn’t start at the bottom and have to learn to play and march. Students also wouldn’t have to learn a new style of music in college.

Having experience would help students make their college experience better because they wouldn’t have to be the only person not knowing how to play marching band music and how to march while playing.

Marching bands are also as competitive as sporting events. A pep band is fun, but marching bands go to events and place in contests and other such events. They are invited to travel to places such as Washington D.C. to play.

Marching bands take a lot of work, but they are worth it in the end. LP needs to have a marching band not only to show more pride in their students and school, but also to show that we are prepared for any college.