Fort Mill Middle School band director on teaching kids from rival marching bands

We have, and I've shared this with parents before, it's an unusual circumstance in that we have three high school bands in one town that are of the caliber, you're talking nationally renowned. The number one thing, and I've loved this, and I perceived this about the Fort Mill schools and bands even before I worked here, there's healthy competition, but there's also a lot mutual respect and support between the three band programs you know in Fort Mill and right now we're we're really close to half and half you know as before you know we had a larger percentage of the kids going to Nation Ford when we lost Sugar Creek that really kind of evened out when I talk about the high school bands to the middle school kids I try to make sure sure to you know point out to them how successful all of the bands you know have been and how we love supporting you know one another there's going to be you know healthy competition so this year Catawba Ridge and Nation Forward are in the same classification at State in 5A Fort Mill is in 6A when we sit in the stands and they're performing we're the loudest cheerleaders you know for them