MCPS Elementary school variety shows....

[Anonymous]

Does your MCPS elementary have a variety show? If so, how are acts chosen? Are all students able to participate, or are there cuts?

Thanks for sharing!

[Anonymous]

Our school has one every other year. My kids haven't participated but my understanding is that every student who wants to participate is included.

[Anonymous]

No, ours has never had one. We've been at our ES for 4 years.

[Anonymous]

What is your opinion on this: our elementary school has a variety show each year and does cut acts, many acts. They have to audition in front of a panel of teachers, and then a few days later the results are posted in the hall for everyone to look and see. If your name is up there your act makes it, if it's not up there you are cut. No further explanations given. Better luck next year. Quite a few kids are cut and they always come out crying while the kids who got in are celebrating around them.

I think this is inappropriate for K-5 (and every kid whether Kindergartner or 5th grader goes through the same process), but I want to know if other people disagree and how other schools handle a variety show.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is your opinion on this: our elementary school has a variety show each year and does cut acts, many acts. They have to audition in front of a panel of teachers, and then a few days later the results are posted in the hall for everyone to look and see. If your name is up there your act makes it, if it's not up there you are cut. No further explanations given. Better luck next year. Quite a few kids are cut and they always come out crying while the kids who got in are celebrating around them.

I think this is inappropriate for K-5 (and every kid whether Kindergartner or 5th grader goes through the same process), but I want to know if other people disagree and how other schools handle a variety show.

Because every kid should get a trophy, right, OP?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is your opinion on this: our elementary school has a variety show each year and does cut acts, many acts. They have to audition in front of a panel of teachers, and then a few days later the results are posted in the hall for everyone to look and see. If your name is up there your act makes it, if it's not up there you are cut. No further explanations given. Better luck next year. Quite a few kids are cut and they always come out crying while the kids who got in are celebrating around them.

I think this is inappropriate for K-5 (and every kid whether Kindergartner or 5th grader goes through the same process), but I want to know if other people disagree and how other schools handle a variety show.

My feeling is that there isn't time for a never-ending talent/variety show. There were cuts at mine when I went to a MCPS elementary school. We got over it if our act was cut. Kids will survive. They are so used to everyone being included in everything and earning participation trophies that they don't know how to handle any type of rejection.

Same thing happened for when the cast list was posted for elementary school plays. A lot tried out. Only a few roles. Many were relegated to "chorus". We survived.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is your opinion on this: our elementary school has a variety show each year and does cut acts, many acts. They have to audition in front of a panel of teachers, and then a few days later the results are posted in the hall for everyone to look and see. If your name is up there your act makes it, if it's not up there you are cut. No further explanations given. Better luck next year. Quite a few kids are cut and they always come out crying while the kids who got in are celebrating around them.

I think this is inappropriate for K-5 (and every kid whether Kindergartner or 5th grader goes through the same process), but I want to know if other people disagree and how other schools handle a variety show.

Because every kid should get a trophy, right, OP?

:ro

To me this is less about every kid getting a trophy, than about keeping kids out of the game.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is your opinion on this: our elementary school has a variety show each year and does cut acts, many acts. They have to audition in front of a panel of teachers, and then a few days later the results are posted in the hall for everyone to look and see. If your name is up there your act makes it, if it's not up there you are cut. No further explanations given. Better luck next year. Quite a few kids are cut and they always come out crying while the kids who got in are celebrating around them.

I think this is inappropriate for K-5 (and every kid whether Kindergartner or 5th grader goes through the same process), but I want to know if other people disagree and how other schools handle a variety show.

I don't think this is inappropriate for K-5... I don't want these kinds of school activities cancelled by overprotective parents. That would be very bad for the kids in the long run.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is your opinion on this: our elementary school has a variety show each year and does cut acts, many acts. They have to audition in front of a panel of teachers, and then a few days later the results are posted in the hall for everyone to look and see. If your name is up there your act makes it, if it's not up there you are cut. No further explanations given. Better luck next year. Quite a few kids are cut and they always come out crying while the kids who got in are celebrating around them.

I think this is inappropriate for K-5 (and every kid whether Kindergartner or 5th grader goes through the same process), but I want to know if other people disagree and how other schools handle a variety show.

Because every kid should get a trophy, right, OP?

:ro

To me this is less about every kid getting a trophy, than about keeping kids out of the game.

Why does every kid deserve to be in the game? There are only a certain number of positions on the team, just like there are only a certain number of slots in the talent show.

[Anonymous]

Does your 8 year old's soccer team cut players?

[Anonymous]

Our's has had one every year for the past 4 years that we've been there. To my knowledge, no act gets cut, but they do limit duplicate songs - like when Let It Go was really popular. Maybe there aren't that many acts at our school compared to others that cut acts. Each act is about 2min or so. I think our shows are about 2 hrs with a 10min intermission.

[Anonymous]

Our school does a variety show and no acts are cut. However, there are a few rules, like you can only be in one act and they encourage group acts to limit the number of smaller acts. My kids have moved on from that school but I respect a no cut policy in ES. It's nice for kids to get the chance to try out being on stage and doing something--- even the kids without real talent. My kids are in middle and high school now and both talent shows and theater have kids are competitive and many kids get cut. I'm grateful for the chance my kid got to try stuff out before it was more cut throat.

[Anonymous]

I totally support there being rules, combing acts, changing them etc... I just feel if an elementary school aged kid is willing to try hard and participate and take that risk then they should be included. Save cutting acts for middle and high school. These are 7, 8, 9, year old kids...none of them have fully fledged well developed "talents" yet anyway (well, not most of them).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I totally support there being rules, combing acts, changing them etc... I just feel if an elementary school aged kid is willing to try hard and participate and take that risk then they should be included. Save cutting acts for middle and high school. These are 7, 8, 9, year old kids...none of them have fully fledged well developed "talents" yet anyway (well, not most of them).

Are all students required to participate in the variety show? If not, you just let your kid not to participate (like Halloween activities). It's simple.

[Anonymous]

Our school encourages group acts. And the act is limited to a certain amount of time (songs are edited and short).