UIL to require physicals for marching bands starting Aug. 1

[TexasTowelie]

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 it’s 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 didn’t 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]

1. It's 2019. Everybody is deathly afraid to get sued. nt

[get the red out]

2. Sorry to barge into the Texas Group, but I thought of this immediately

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]

3. good idea....

it's a much more strenuous activity than most people realize, especially during summer rehearsals in Texas...

[Paladin]

4. And there are way too many out-of-shape kids in marching bands, these days. (nt)