The Garden Spot High School marching band will need to come up with two new songs this season after the Elanco school board voted Monday to reinforce an administrative decision to remove a pair of songs because of their lyrics.

The 6-3 decision was made despite the fact the songs are performed as instrumentals.

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Board members Melissa Readman, Glen Yoder, Jennifer Zeiset, Heidi Zimmerman, Jonathan Dahl and Paul Irvine voted to keep the songs off the band's play list, while Rodney Jones, Glenn Hartz and Tom Wentzel voted to allow the songs.

In comments after the meeting, Superintendent Robert Hollister said after administrators were alerted to concerns over the songs, band director Richard Fitz was told to find new songs on July 10.

Parents and band members voiced their displeasure at the decision to remove Bruno Mars' "Locked Out of Heaven" and Fall Out Boy's "Thnks fr th Mmrs."

Band member parent Pauline Redding called the decision a "fiasco" and said it makes things extremely difficult for the band members, directors and choreographers.

She read a review of Mars' song that casts it as a love song.

"These songs are not that bad," she said.

Lynne Ressler, another parent of a band member, said the administration made a "hasty decision" to side with those who reported the songs as offensive after so much work had been done by the band.

"Did we really stop and think about what the ramifications would be?" Ressler asked.

Ginevra Babini, a Garden Spot High School senior and color guard captain, said dropping the songs wastes time and money because flags corresponding to the songs have already been chosen.

"We are totally lost and helpless, and we don't know what to do," Babini said.

Shannon Bauer, who moved to the school district this year, talked about why she contacted band officials to raise concerns about the songs.

She said she searched for the songs online after she received her child's band packet earlier this month.

Bauer said if people hear audience members singing along or search for the songs online, it could reflect badly on the school district.

She said band directors should not have allowed the songs to make it onto the schedule.

"They have the opportunity to be examples for these young adults," Bauer said.

Hartz talked about some offensive lyrics at a school dance he chaperoned 20 years ago, which, he said, make him sensitive to issues with song choices.

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However, Hartz said, even the lyrics to common musical choices like "The Phantom of the Opera" can be seen as "sensual" and or suggestive.

"Where do we draw the line?" Hartz asked.

Wentzel said the issue addresses a "slippery slope" on the controversial nature of song lyrics in general and suggested the board has gotten "dragged down" by a situation that could have been avoided.

Zimmerman said as a former band member she appreciates the work that has gone into preparation, but said she was offended by the lyrics.

She said there should be more community involvement in planning processes, but, she said, she believes in the band's ability to adapt.

Zeiset said that, in her opinion, poor judgment was shown, and she supports creating a consistent policy for song choices.

Yoder, school board president, expressed his confidence in the students and band directors, calling the band "top-notch."

"I see this as an opportunity," Yoder said. "There are ways to overcome this and to make something positive out of it."

While Jones supported keeping the songs, he said the band directors should have not allowed the song choices. He said the lack of a clear policy is a problem.

Hollister said he feels the frustration of the students, parents and staff involved in the band. He said the district let them down by not having more oversight into the song choice process.

After the meeting, Garden Spot Middle School principal Jeffrey Starr said middle-schoolers will be allowed to wear "mid-thigh" shorts beginning this fall.

Starr said a letter went out July 11 informing parents that a shorts ban, announced in a prior letter in June, will not take effect for the 2014-15 school year, and that instead, students can wear shorts that extend to mid-thigh.

After an administrative announcement to ban shorts at the middle school for the upcoming year, parents sounded off at a July 10 town hall meeting, where Starr discussed why the former policy of "fingertip-length" shorts was not working.

He said the policy was too difficult to enforce.

At the July 10 meeting, Starr reached a compromise with parents to allow the mid-thigh shorts.

On Monday, Starr said he is glad to have brought the issue to the attention of the community.

A "dress for success" policy, Starr said, is what he wants to promote: choices that prepare students for professionalism later in life.

Starr said additional board action is not necessary to put the new policy in place. Board members confirmed that they will not need to vote on the issue.

Note: This story was updated with the correct spelling of the Fall Out Boy song, "Thnks fr th Mmrs," which is pronounced "thanks for the memories."