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[tinylegacies]

Your teenager is just entering high school. They decide they want to join the marching band. For whatever reason, they would be picking up a new instrument to do so (they don't play one, there are no open spots for whatever they wanted to play, or they wanted to join guard/majorettes but there are no spots

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[kill_inhibition]

It's kind of creepy. I would find it inappropriate if any of my teachers said it to me, so I feel the same about them saying it to my kid. I wouldn't do anything about it though. If my kid felt the need to do something about it, I'd just encourage them to bring it up to the school counsellor.

[cathubodva]

I think it would be hilarious, and I can definitely picture my high school band director (male) saying it to my classmates.

[ayanamisama]

Mine too. I can see how it could be inappropriate, but it wouldn't immediately get my hackles up.

[darth_snarky]

ITA with both of these.

[zinnea]

Were they joking? I can easily imagine this as a silly joke, like the time one of my gym teachers encouraged us to work extra hard on our rope climbing so that we could rescue ourselves from a trapped elevator by climbing the cable. If the coach was a constant creeper, yeah, it's an inadvisable line but if it were an obvious joke, no, I don't see anything wrong with it.

[firiels_cat]

I wouldn't say creepy - just juvenile.

[couchtiger]

At a high school age, if that's all there was to the conversation, I think it's all in good fun.