I was in the marching band in High School, and the band directors always told us in rehearsal for parades that when we made turns to stay in and not swing out as if there were some sort of centrifugal force dragging us out¹. I was always that one kid who took the right line and everyone else was toward the outside.

We were told that in a real parade, we should just stay with the wrong kids because that looks better than having one kid doing the right thing and everyone else looking like they’re doing the right thing, but being wrong. I always took the right line anyway, because if absolutely no one takes the right line, no one ever will. Or so I though. But in all my years in the marching band, no one ever changed to take the right line. So I looked wrong for no benefit.

¹Now I’ve been training dogs for many, many years, the obvious way I’d handle this if I were training high school students is simply to mark the pavement or have someone stand where the inner and outer people should be as they go around turns so we could rehearse it correctly and know what it looked like. It may not be fair to judge people for not being able to picture what being right looks like, when they’ve always rehearsed the wrong thing.