Drum Line Comes Back For Action

If you have been walking through the ALC hallways, there have been fliers saying that the Drum Line is back. The information about Drum Line was given from Jocelyn Pleitez, junior when she was gave me the flier today in my pathways. Drum Line came back and rumors say that there is going to be a coach that will be there and teach us how to play.

As you all know, Drum has been canceled almost every year because not a lot of students sign up to give school spirit in the football games or in lunch. The program that got this Drum Line going on in 2009-2010 was “A World Fit For Kids”. They managed to get students in the Drum Line from ALC and other academies. Greg Perez, the sponsor of the program, manages the Drum Line and was successful, for some weeks. There were over 30 MCLC students that participated in last year’s Drum Line. They usually had practice that started after school from 3:30 to 4:30. The coaches explained they would teach the students how to play in 10 weeks of practice to do a performance, which they sort of never did.

As the Drum Line was reduced to a small number of students, the coaches were having the feeling that the students didn’t want to learn or participate in the program. As I was in the Drum Line, I saw that the students just wanted to be there to mess around with the drums and not be serious about it. “From there I got out because I had joined in a sport and wasn’t able to participate in the Drum Line,”  So, at the end there were only three students left and the school didn’t want to waste money on the Drum Line, just to teach three kids so they canceled it again, according to a friend that was one out of the three left in the Drum Line.

So then, the same program doesn’t give up and let’s hope that we manage to get Drum Line back by going to a meeting on Thursday 17, 3:30 p.m. at the Grotto. Hopefully that there will be an large number  of MCLC students going to the meeting.  I know that I will be attending/  If Drum Line succeeds, there would be an exciting half time in the football games.