While you said that Mike Howard did not deserve 'the thinly veiled suggestion of bias', but when your last employer was Leander ISD and Rouse HS, from Leander ISD, "wins" the 5A Honor Band competition, it sure seems like he earned those suggestions.

I do not have all the facts, but TMEA does not seem to care about the optics of their response by way of no statement in defense of their actions.

Punish the choir program, I see that, but every music student and faculty member in the district?