William Watson: Forced To Join Band In Middle School

At a prep school in Connecticut, a boy named Jamie Watson gets a rugby scholarship to Sherringford. But also home to the great-great-great-granddaughter of the famous detective, Charlotte Holmes. One day after after Watson got settled in he went walking around campus and bumped into Charlotte Holmes, they talked in the middle of the walkway about how Charlotte Holmes’s parents and family had been dying to meet Jamie Watson. Just about a week after he started school Watson bumped into Lee Dobson and got in a fight with Lee Dobson because Dobson was making jokes about Watson and ended up punching him in the face and knocked him out. About 3 days after that incident, there was a murder a few dorm rooms down the hall from his own, Lee Dobson was

When ever he went to the bathroom he didn't actually go to the bathroom he went around and bullied little kids and made them give him their lunch money. One day a kid said that he was going to get caught. He replied with “I’ll never get caught the teachers never come out of their class rooms”. The teachers were all in their classes so none of them saw this and he got away with bullying kids for a long time until one day when Ms.Miller caught him and because he kept leaving her class to do this. So she decided not to let him leave her class at all anymore. The worst thing was that he got his mom mad at him too and he wasn't going to get any more of his favorite cereal crunchy crispers™. He also never has actually gone to the bathroom at school ever in his life and he thought that.

Marching band is a social and collaborative effort at its core. As fun as it would be, a one-person marching band would consist of an exhausted player trying to trapeze across a football field carrying a bass drum, trumpet, tuba, snare drum, flute, bells, and cymbals in a contraption reminiscent of the life-draining machine in The Princess Bride. Every time I walk onto the grass in front of a crowd of semi-apathetic high school students and devoted band parents, pushing an array of wooden blocks and twine sticks, I realize how much of band is a group effort. I have no ability to march or play a brass instrument, which is where marching band started. I cannot throw a flag and guarantee that it won't hit A: myself, B: someone else, or C:

Will uses anger, denial, and sarcasm as defense mechanisms to push people away from him. He told people that he did not have a problem and that they were the ones with the problem. He used

Oliver was a new student to the Royalton Elementary school this year. When he started the year and began attending MAP, he struggled for a very long time. He was a very hostile child who often chose to play alone for the sole reason that he hated everyone else, and did not want to play with anyone. None of the staff knew how to handle to him, and because of his violent outbursts and yelling, many of the younger students were afraid of him.

Will is defensive towards everyone he comes in contact with. He experiences incongruence with his cockiness of being smarter than most but he doesn't feel he deserves better than living as a nobody.

You know when you have one of those friends you feel like you will have forever? Well, I have already found mine. This is the story. The first of seventh grade I stayed with the same small friend group and didn’t talk to people if it wasn’t required. Fast forward to eighth grade and I had made some band nerd friends because they had my sense of humor and the same love for band. Band was probably my favorite class and the class where I could be myself and not worry who was watching. I had made some friends with some fellow clarinet players and found out that they weren’t that bad once you got to know them. There was this one girl, her name was Nina Zeiler, she was the type of person that hanged out with the outcasts and was more of a rebel but was on the cheerleading team. I tried not to talk to her then which sounds ridiculous now that she is my best friend.

It doesn’t take a natural disaster or a death to alter the course of your life. It can be as small and simple as a choice—picking a class. My life was changed for the better when, in sixth grade, I chose to join the band. I remember vacillating, nearly in tears, over which instrument to learn before deciding to choose the flute, unaware that this decision would mold me through out my middle school and high school years. Band has taught me valuable life lessons and leadership skills, it has provided me with priceless friendships, and it has fostered a love of music in me. Without band I would not be the person I am today.

High schooler Kenneth Weishuhn Jr. took his own life because he was being bullied by his fellow classmates and online.The classmates were sending death threats to his phone.When Kenneth first started being bullied it was through an anti-gay Facebook group. Kenneth’s classmates were the ones who created the group about Kenneth being gay. The high schooler’s mother was aware of Kenneth being bullied, and he told her she does not know how it feels to be hated. All of the hate towards Kenneth started when he came out to the people he trusted. The people Kenneth trusted were the ones that turned their back on him and went against him. Most people joined in on the ruckus and most did not say anything because they were to afraid (“Kenneth”). Teens

Marching band does not sound interesting to most people, at least to me it didn’t. For the longest time I wanted to quit band because I never really enjoyed it, I didn’t think I was good so it made me want to give up. But my mother never let me quit. I hated her for it but I realize now that she was doing something good for me. My mother made me play the flute. The instrument that isn’t like any other, some call it a “hybrid” between the woodwinds and brass. I never liked to practice the flute, but eventually I had to. These factors, hating being in band, my mother forcing me to stick with it, and playing the flute, changed my life.

The marching band has also felt like a home away from home. If I wasn’t at home with my parents, I was on the band field. While being in the marching band at my high school, my long-term goal was to become their drum major for my last two years. I wanted to be the drum major that would cause the band members to put every ounce of passion into performing the show. Once I decided this during my freshman year, I put my heart and soul into my band. I stepped up to any work my band director needed help with. Whether it was fundraising or running OMEA (Ohio Music Education Association) events or lining the band field, I was there to show my band director I was ready to be a leader. My setback came when I didn't achieve section leader for the flutes

The activities that i'm involved in, inside of school are Marching Band. The Albert Lea High School Marching Band is during the summer and lasts about a week. It’s a blast and I meet new friends, also 8th Graders are allowed to do marching band and us upper kids help them with marching and memorizing the music. I also do regular Band class here at school. I play the Flute and are now learning how to play the Tuba, during the marching band season I do Drumline. I use to play softball and volleyball. Softball wasn’t the greatest, I mean getting hit in the face with softballs isn’t fun, other than that I had a great time and games and the girls on my team were the nicest. I played volleyball for 3 years. I had to skip a year of volleyball to plan my Quinceanera. This year, my sophomore year, I tried out for volleyball. Sadly I didn’t make it. Even though i was bummed out, I learned to cope with it.

Most schools offer a variety of activities, classes, and clubs. I personally was never interested in school or anything to do with it. Then I came across band and was instantly hooked. Band has concerts, marching band, and you get to meet new people. Band is my favorite class and here are some reasons why.

Will 's group of friends seem to pick on him and judge him, which questions if they are truly his friends or not and if he truly fits in with him.

In his last therapy session, Will reveals to Sean that he was beaten as a child. As a result, he has a tough time believing that he is capable of achievement in life. Children who endure such hardships can feel unworthy and not have a desire to succeed in life. Will also has a tough time accepting love. When Skylar, his girlfriend asks him to go to California with her, he chokes her. Shortly after, he breaks up with her. This most likely resembles Cluster C avoidant personality disorder. Avoidant personality disorder occurs when people have feelings of insufficiency and are extremely sensitive to rejection. Connors wrote, “Specifically, individuals with an avoidant attachment style who have been rebuffed by caregivers in childhood will be defensively constricted and unable to love in adulthood” (475). Will did not feel like he was capable of being loved and feared being rejected, so he ended things with Skylar. It wasn’t until he was court ordered to see a psychiatrist that he began to value himself.