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Report: D.C. School Marching Bands Skipping Trump’s Inaugural Parade
YahooNews ^ | December 14, 2016 | Christopher Wilson

Posted on 12/14/2016 7:03:31 PM PST by Steelfish

Report: D.C. School Marching Bands Skipping Trump’s Inaugural Parade Christopher Wilson.

For the first time in 20 years, no Washington, D.C., public school marching band will perform at the inaugural parade.

According to a Wednesday report from NBC Washington, no local public schools submitted applications to perform in the parade. The original deadline was Nov. 28 but was extended to Dec. 5 to allow more time to apply. A D.C. public schools spokeswoman told the NBC affiliate that she was unaware of any band in the district that had applied to participate in the Jan. 20 parade.

Other high schools in the area also reportedly declined to submit applications:

No bands in Arlington County or Prince George’s County public schools applied, according to district representatives. A Fairfax County schools spokesman was not aware of any schools that had applied, and a Montgomery County schools spokeswoman did not have information available.

The University of Maryland’s College Park campus also declined to perform again. The band was performed at Obama’s 2013 inauguration.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia; US: Maryland; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: academicbias; antitrump; bakethecake; band; doublestandard; fairfaxcounty; inauguration; teens; trumpinaugural; trumptransition
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To: Steelfish

Using children, the Partisan leftist school district hacks!


21 posted on 12/14/2016 7:08:22 PM PST by Lopeover (The 2016 Election is about allegiance to the United States!)
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To: Steelfish

Next they’ll complain that Trump didn’t want Blacks in his inaugural parade.

These folks are skitzoid.


22 posted on 12/14/2016 7:08:59 PM PST by DoughtyOne (jcon40, "Are we be coming into the age of Sanity?")
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To: mewzilla

My youngest boy is going with his school to DC to the White House, and all the kids talk about is wanting to see Trump.
They love him, though they are not looking forward to the cold weather,LOL.


23 posted on 12/14/2016 7:09:04 PM PST by manc ( If they want so called marriage equality then they should support polygamy too.)
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To: manc

Bake the cake! It’s not an endorsement of the ceremony. < /sarc >

Same for Elton John who allegedly spoke out against playing the Inauguration.


24 posted on 12/14/2016 7:09:16 PM PST by a fool in paradise (The COM-Left is saddened by the death of the Communist dictator Fidel Castro. No surprise there.)
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To: Steelfish

Did NEA put out the word to avoid the inauguration?


25 posted on 12/14/2016 7:10:40 PM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: ladyjane

“Good. Cut off their money.”

Unfortunately, that has a significant downside near-term.


26 posted on 12/14/2016 7:10:42 PM PST by vette6387
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To: biggredd1

I’ve always wondered if there isn’t a certain amount of double dipping going on— kid on food stamps grabbing two or three meals a day at school.


27 posted on 12/14/2016 7:10:56 PM PST by ameribbean expat
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Facilities operated by reprehensible Democrat thugs denying the students a historic opportunity.

The Democrat Thug Party.


28 posted on 12/14/2016 7:11:41 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Steelfish

Disband otta disband.


29 posted on 12/14/2016 7:13:05 PM PST by Paladin2 (No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

Yep...It’s something they WON’T be able to tell their grandkids....


30 posted on 12/14/2016 7:13:16 PM PST by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: Steelfish

Because they are too stupid to play.


31 posted on 12/14/2016 7:13:17 PM PST by ConservativeMind ("Humane" = "Don't pen up pets or eat meat, but allow infanticides, abortion, and euthanasia.")
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To: Gene Eric

Who gave DC 3 electoral wotes?


32 posted on 12/14/2016 7:13:55 PM PST by Paladin2 (No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
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To: a fool in paradise
Though he had no problem doing Rush's wedding for a cool

$ 1,000,000.

33 posted on 12/14/2016 7:14:14 PM PST by Eagles6 (My weapons are lubricated by liberal tears.)
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To: Steelfish

Looks like there is a thinning of the applications by process of self-elimination which is a good thing. . Now those deciding who to select to play won’t have to worry about those that probably weren’t that good anyway.


34 posted on 12/14/2016 7:15:15 PM PST by Maudeen (No one on this earth is too far gone for Jesus.)
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To: Steelfish

That’s OK. They probably suck.


35 posted on 12/14/2016 7:15:58 PM PST by HIDEK6
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To: ladyjane

It’s a LOT easier to march, but if they wann’a skip ... let ‘em skip.


36 posted on 12/14/2016 7:16:49 PM PST by knarf (I say things that are true, I have no proof, but they're true.)
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To: Steelfish

Maybe some school from Indiana would like to attend. Or maybe WI, MI, NC, PA, OH, FL......


37 posted on 12/14/2016 7:18:03 PM PST by gubamyster
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To: Steelfish

This is the prep for an Inauguration Day fake news story. It is intended to fuel talking points as announcers “notice” the utter lack of “diversity” among the participants.


38 posted on 12/14/2016 7:18:42 PM PST by Sgt_Schultze (If a border fence isn't effective, why is there a border fence around the White House?)
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To: Steelfish

to punish them, I say put them all in failing schools surrounded by children of color where they will learn nothing, not show up and get raped/stabbed on a daily basis and then, go on to be failures at life. Oh wait, that has already happened to them. Never mind.


39 posted on 12/14/2016 7:18:43 PM PST by brucedickinson
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To: ifinnegan

Exactly. I bet the children would be thrilled to be performing at the Inauguration.

Unless their teachers have indoctrinated them.

Oh, they are high school students? Just saw that.

He may win them over when he clears up the squalor. They might actually have an opportunity to have a job after graduation.

In any case... it’s probably not the kids who decided this. Were their grades dependent on some vote that they were worried the teachers might see?


40 posted on 12/14/2016 7:19:52 PM PST by proud American in Canada (May God Bless the U.S.A. (Trump: I will bear the slings and arrows for you, the American people))
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