New Orleans St. Augustine High School drum major with hearing loss [Video]

The third-annual Children’s Hospital New Orleans parade is rolling in Downtown New Orleans Saturday. Several Children’s Hospital New Orleans patients and former patients are part of the parade. One of those patients, Aidan Moore, a senior at St. Augustine High School, is leading the school’s marching band despite a rare genetic condition causing progressive hearing loss.”Growing up, I knew the very place that I wanted to be at was Saint Augustine High School,” said Moore. Moore is not only a thriving student at the school.”My mom told me I learned how to march before I knew how to walk,” said Moore.””When I announced his name, it was such overjoy from his family and parents,” said Ray V. Johnson Sr., the schools band director. “He earned his position; it was not like anything was given or we chose people.”Moore discovered his condition as a baby, which also affects his sisters and …