KaiserSchnitzel posted:

This reminds me very much of marching band parents.

When I was a drumline instructor, the band I worked with would go on a summer tour for several weeks. It's a total shitshow; I don't even know if the summer tours still exist. The organizations that organized the events...like, the NCAA of high school marching band...were a couple of outfits called MACBDA and ...OCI? I don't remember the second one, but it wasn't DCI. That's Drum & Bugle Corps.

So, high school kids living out of buses. Parent-chaperone to student ratio is about 1 to 20, plus the instructor staff of about 4-5. There's some nonsense going down every day. But dose band parents doe...they think that since they're riding around with you on a bus that they know as much about drilling marching band as the instructor staff. Yelling, screaming, shoving, the whole bit...just like little league & Pop Warner EXCEPT YOU DON'T GET AWAY FROM THEM AFTER THE SHOW.

So much drama, and all the time none of them are even noticing the kids smoking weed, or screwing in the back of the buses, or drinking liquor (the liquor that didn't get confiscated during baggage check). Nope, they didn't want to chaperone. They wanted to criticize the instructors 24/7.