After fourteen years as a teacher and twelve years as the Seymour High School’s Band Director, Michael Carter has made a decision that everyone can understand, but wish it was different.

Carter turned in his resignation to Seymour High Principle Greg Clark today as both a teacher and Band Director.

“I taught him while he was in school and I can’t say enough good about him,” Clark told the Seymour Herald. “I can’t say enough good about him and what he’s done for our community. He’s put a great band together and they are second to none. He’s given a lot of his personal time to accomplish what he has with the band. He’s been a tremendous asset to the community and he will definitely be missed by the staff, the students and myself,” concluded Clark.

“I look around and I see what happens when a parent spends a lot of time with their children when their young and what happens when they don’t and I feel like I’m a “A” Band Director and a “C+” dad and I need to switch that around,” Carter told the Seymour Herald.

Carter says that it was a family decision. He also said, "As I looked around at other band directors and either they had a successful family or a successful band," He says he rarely saw both. It takes an immense time commitment if you choose to be a good band director, according to Carter.

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