• Band shirts hit wrong note with parents | 0px, span, font - Top Story - Sedalia Democrat

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    • The shirts, which were designed to promote the band’s fall program, are light gray and feature an image of a monkey progressing through stages and eventually emerging as a man. Each figure holds a brass instrument. Several instruments decorate the background and the words “Smith-Cotton High School Tiger Pride Marching Band” and “Brass Evolutions 2009” are emblazoned above and below the image.

    • “I made the decision to have the band members turn the shirts in after several concerned parents brought the shirts to my attention,” Pollitt said. 


      Pollitt said the district is required by law to remain neutral where religion is concerned.

    • “If the shirts had said ‘Brass Resurrections’ and had a picture of Jesus on the cross, we would have done the same thing,” he said.

    • “I was disappointed with the image on the shirt.” Melby said. “I don’t think evolution should be associated with our school.” 

    • If I wanted my children to be sheltered, I would have enrolled them in private school,” she said. 
    • “I can see where the parents are coming from,” he said. “Evolution has always been controversial.” The 17-year-old trombone player said his parents “didn’t care” about the shirt because it was the “name of the band’s show.”

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