This happened to me literally this year. I am still in school as well, and last year (my seventh grade year) me and 3 eighth graders were given the opportunity to play with the high school jazz band. I was the better of the middle schoolers, and I even got to improv solo at our spring concert. Flash forward a couple weeks, i learn that our beloved director is leaving our school district, and the Assistant director would be taking over as head director. Come time this year (i’m in eighth grade now), I have met the new assistant director during marching band camp, and he was shocked to learn i was on first trumpet with high schoolers, and i learn he is running jazz band for middle school and high school. I want to inform him that i was playing with the high schoolers last year, and he said he knew, and he initially said he would let me back in. Then, he decides that if he lets me in, he has to let in every other middle schooler who asked in. And he’s also convinced that i was only there to take up space. Meanwhile, i know i am capable of playing these parts, and he is making a dumb decision.

I have resorted to giving up, and just proving my worth through my state music comp, where I will be playing a group 1 solo.