For the random “best percussion at the Crackaxle Canyon Festival” or the “Outstanding auxiliary at the Foggy Bottom Corral” type thing,
here’s what we do: we have all of those displayed on the shelf with all the others.
I keep them gathered together by year. So right now, we have 2021/22, 2022/23, 2023/24, 2024/25 displayed. At the end of this school year, I throw away the 2021/22 trophies.
The senior class that is graduating walks out with their 4 years worth of trophies displayed. The junior class wasn’t around for that year and won’t know the difference.
I’ve never caught flack over this and no one but me and the other directors know that we toss them. Have you ever had a kid come back to visit
and ask to look at the best hornline trophy from 1996? No. Our kids come back and visit. All the time. And the conversations never seem to make their way around to “can I see the trophy we won?”
Our trophy display is large and impressive and the “biggies” stay there. The random ones, we toss after all the kids that were involved have moved on.
It works for us.
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