We are concerned that we provide a good experience for our students. We have a good faculty; we just need to help them get along.

We have tried mediation. We brought in an outsider specializing in workplace conflict.

This is a good experience for the students to get involved in. It can become intense and stressful, but they all pull together and work together as a team. It's something fun to become involved with, because unlike many other competitions, its all gray, it's not black and white, and it's a true challenge. We had a really good team this year that pulled it all together.

This is a once-in-a-lifetime experience for our band students.

They've never had a saddle on, or been worked with. We want students to experience that first.

Students are getting concerned and they should be very concerned because we live in an area that is not very safe.