Neglecting Duties

[Antares]

Today, my band teacher was absent and a girl who is very good at flute but very loud conducted. I think she's ENFP, but I'm not sure. The teacher gave her the privilege of deducting marks if the band was out of line, and indeed it was. She would be graded on how much we improved (I told her to 'please' be more strict with the band, as we need to improve and she needs her mark). The trumpet section was frustrating and very flawed, and hacking points is reasonable because they were supposed to practice, but didn't. When they couldn't play in sync, she just let it go! It doesn't matter that the chords sounded like a pile of garbage. All this time, I was fuming along with the flutist next to me and we were both discussing on how to manage the band were we in her position. I suggested having the trumpets play one by one to identify the source of the problem, but the girl refuses to do it; just because they won't like it and it may endanger their good relations with her (and mind you, they're all handsome boys, and coincedentally, all single), and I suspect that she wouldn't deduct marks for the same reason. All I know is, as long as I'm in the band, I'll volunteer for leadership. I'm absolutely frustrated at her incompetence.

Do you often find that people would volunteer for the 'glorious' job to please others, be it the teacher or the boss, but end up not doing it? How do you put the group back on track? How do you feel about those who shirk their responsibilities for the sake of their social life? How do you feel about neglecting responsibilities in general?

[coffeeloverfreak]

I don't think she was neglecting her responsibilities. It sounds as though she just wasn't being as strict as you would have liked. But often, docking points, threats and strictness aren't the best motivators. I doubt this girl would have gotten the band to improve much by yelling at them and docking their points. She would've earned nothing but their hatred.

Really, it's the teacher's job to discipline. It was dumb of the teacher to give this right or this responsibility to a student in the first place, IMHO.

[JTG]

(they're all handsome boys, and coincedentally, all single) It's no coincidence. They're in band... of course they're single.

All kidding aside, i'm confused why the teacher would even give leadership to this person unless it was to humiliate her, haha. Whatever the reason, pretty sure she should feel humiliated anyway.

[Antares]

Really, it's the teacher's job to discipline. It was dumb of the teacher to give this right or this responsibility to a student in the first place, IMHO.

Perhaps. I remember she gave one of my classmates the right to grade my whole flute section; a test that was worth 30% of our grade. I'm very dissatisfied with her. *sigh*

[Solaris]

As the teacher is the one with the education and official position, shouldn't she be the one doling out grades? Great that she can let band members step up and show some leadership, but student views of peers should not actually count for grades. That's ridiculous. I am a former band geek, and I was often in leadership positions within the band. I would never have wanted to grade them though. I, like you camelopardalis, would have preferred to be correct than liked though. I am a perfectionist, and become annoyed with sloppiness within a band. I will hunt out the problem, and fix it.

[ElstonGunn]

You do know what the difference between band and a bull is, right? ...The bull has the horns in front and the ass in the back.