Flint Hill Holiday Chorus Concert Cancelled

[Anonymous]

Just very disappointing for working parents who couldn’t make the day time one. I ran from work early to get there only to see an empty parking lot and a sign on the door. If it was because of song choices, I wish they could have made that call earlier.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can we all just acknowledge that Christmas isn’t about Jesus anymore and get back to celebrating Christmas?
Buddhist families, agnostic families, many Jewish families and some Muslim families celebrate Christmas because the recognize the tree and Santa aren’t about Jesus. It is at this point secular. It is about Capitalism, buying presents and giving presents. Most retailers rely on Christmas to keep going.
Let’s decouple Christianity and Santa and celebrate capitalism and have a holiday that brings us (the United States) together across the entire religious spectrum in the name of spending and giving.

faithful Muslims do not celebrate Christmas. Saying you are Muslim doesn’t make you a Muslim.

Agree and faithful Christians know that the Christmas season is a time to recognize and celebrate the birth of our savior. Fine if you want to have a secular winter celebration, but many of us believe that Jesus is the reason for the season. We have the right to acknowledge our faith during CHRISTmas. I hope the children get to do thier performance soon without drama.

I'm chuckling over the Christian complaining about her right to celebrate and acknowledge Christmas, which is now basically celebrated openly from Halloween to Dec. 25. God, you're insufferably ignorant.

YOu have the right to do whatever you want regarding Christmas. You don't have the right to impose it on others. You do not have the right to require that your religion or religious beliefs get celebrated in a non-parochial school. If you want all the Jesus-y things, go to Catholic school, sweetie.

NP. I agree with the PP who you are laughing at. Her post was a direct response to the previous one that was trying to un-Christmas Christmas. There are lots of secular aspects to the holiday and gift-giving is a nice gesture, regardless of religion or spirituality. But that doesn't mean that an anonymous poster on DCUM gets to take Christmas out of Christmas. Nope.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can we all just acknowledge that Christmas isn’t about Jesus anymore and get back to celebrating Christmas?
Buddhist families, agnostic families, many Jewish families and some Muslim families celebrate Christmas because the recognize the tree and Santa aren’t about Jesus. It is at this point secular. It is about Capitalism, buying presents and giving presents. Most retailers rely on Christmas to keep going.
Let’s decouple Christianity and Santa and celebrate capitalism and have a holiday that brings us (the United States) together across the entire religious spectrum in the name of spending and giving.

faithful Muslims do not celebrate Christmas. Saying you are Muslim doesn’t make you a Muslim.

Agree and faithful Christians know that the Christmas season is a time to recognize and celebrate the birth of our savior. Fine if you want to have a secular winter celebration, but many of us believe that Jesus is the reason for the season. We have the right to acknowledge our faith during CHRISTmas. I hope the children get to do thier performance soon without drama.

I'm chuckling over the Christian complaining about her right to celebrate and acknowledge Christmas, which is now basically celebrated openly from Halloween to Dec. 25. God, you're insufferably ignorant.

YOu have the right to do whatever you want regarding Christmas. You don't have the right to impose it on others. You do not have the right to require that your religion or religious beliefs get celebrated in a non-parochial school. If you want all the Jesus-y things, go to Catholic school, sweetie.

NP. I agree with the PP who you are laughing at. Her post was a direct response to the previous one that was trying to un-Christmas Christmas. There are lots of secular aspects to the holiday and gift-giving is a nice gesture, regardless of religion or spirituality. But that doesn't mean that an anonymous poster on DCUM gets to take Christmas out of Christmas. Nope.

And you don't get to put it in for other people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Total fake news

Yup. And person spreading Right Wing scare propaganda to the dumb by claiming “my child said.”

"my child said"? "fake news"?

Dear Flint Hill Families,

We apologize for the extremely short notice, but we regrettably must postpone our Winter Concert for this evening.
We will send an update once we have solidified plans to reschedule in the New Year. The students should be very proud of their hard work, and we look forward to seeing them perform again soon.

Sincerely,
Flint Hill Administration

Thank you for posting the email, OP is such a little witch for not mentioning the part about rescheduling. Sounds like a right wing plant to me.

[Anonymous]

WHY DIDN'T ANY OF YOU MOMMAS CALL TO ASK ABOUT THIS?? LAZY LITTLE LUMPY LUMPKINS.

[Anonymous]

1. They are postponing a performance… not the original one they planned
2. I asked my children’s teachers and all of them said they didn’t know why it was cancelled and
3. The admin should give a reason why without having to ask, they are being obtuse and vague on purpose
4. If a parent complained, even if they were right, there were other ways to handle it than cancelling (postponing/postponing with the intent to cancel/postponing with the intent to revamp/whatever) the whole performance

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:1. They are postponing a performance… not the original one they planned
2. I asked my children’s teachers and all of them said they didn’t know why it was cancelled and
3. The admin should give a reason why without having to ask, they are being obtuse and vague on purpose
4. If a parent complained, even if they were right, there were other ways to handle it than cancelling (postponing/postponing with the intent to cancel/postponing with the intent to revamp/whatever) the whole performance

Or maybe, they really aren’t allowed to say why the concert was postponed. Maybe the chorus teacher got COVID or had a medical emergency or death in the family or something else that is none of your business and protected by their right to privacy.

Maybe there was a social media against the school or the concert (definitely has happened to my kids school) or an elevated threat level for some reason, and it isn’t being announced while investigated.

Maybe there was serious disciplinary, bullying, harassment, etc among the kids issue at the daytime concert and it needs to be investigated and dealt with.

And I could go on, because my kids have been in FCPS for years and BTDT (at schools considered by DCUM to be “excellent” BTW).

Not only are you not entitled to an answer in circumstances like this Karen, privacy or security concerns would prevent it.

Go find a real problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1. They are postponing a performance… not the original one they planned
2. I asked my children’s teachers and all of them said they didn’t know why it was cancelled and
3. The admin should give a reason why without having to ask, they are being obtuse and vague on purpose
4. If a parent complained, even if they were right, there were other ways to handle it than cancelling (postponing/postponing with the intent to cancel/postponing with the intent to revamp/whatever) the whole performance

Or maybe, they really aren’t allowed to say why the concert was postponed. Maybe the chorus teacher got COVID or had a medical emergency or death in the family or something else that is none of your business and protected by their right to privacy.

Maybe there was a social media against the school or the concert (definitely has happened to my kids school) or an elevated threat level for some reason, and it isn’t being announced while investigated.

Maybe there was serious disciplinary, bullying, harassment, etc among the kids issue at the daytime concert and it needs to be investigated and dealt with.

And I could go on, because my kids have been in FCPS for years and BTDT (at schools considered by DCUM to be “excellent” BTW).

Not only are you not entitled to an answer in circumstances like this Karen, privacy or security concerns would prevent it.

Go find a real problem.

DP. Usually some explanation would be given for postponing a school concert, however vague. You're just knee-jerk attacking.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1. They are postponing a performance… not the original one they planned
2. I asked my children’s teachers and all of them said they didn’t know why it was cancelled and
3. The admin should give a reason why without having to ask, they are being obtuse and vague on purpose
4. If a parent complained, even if they were right, there were other ways to handle it than cancelling (postponing/postponing with the intent to cancel/postponing with the intent to revamp/whatever) the whole performance

Or maybe, they really aren’t allowed to say why the concert was postponed. Maybe the chorus teacher got COVID or had a medical emergency or death in the family or something else that is none of your business and protected by their right to privacy.

Maybe there was a social media against the school or the concert (definitely has happened to my kids school) or an elevated threat level for some reason, and it isn’t being announced while investigated.

Maybe there was serious disciplinary, bullying, harassment, etc among the kids issue at the daytime concert and it needs to be investigated and dealt with.

And I could go on, because my kids have been in FCPS for years and BTDT (at schools considered by DCUM to be “excellent” BTW).

Not only are you not entitled to an answer in circumstances like this Karen, privacy or security concerns would prevent it.

Go find a real problem.

DP. Usually some explanation would be given for postponing a school concert, however vague. You're just knee-jerk attacking.

Really— please tell us what you would say about the director having COVID (that respects his legal right not to have an illness disclosed), or a security threat (that the FBI okays and doesn’t panic the school) or a disciplinary issue (that doesn’t become a 20 page thread on DCUM of people saying things like “my kid say Larla said Jews are going to hell” before the situation was even investigated.

Especially since Flint Hill Mommy’s are apparently the most histrionic, gossipy Karens in FCPS.

The baffling questions here are why people care so much (that the reason isn’t given. I get why they care the concert was postponed). And do you have any real problems?

Buckle up. If this makes you this angry, you will never survive 13 years in FCPS where, yes, sometimes things are cancelled and you don’t get to know why, or you aren’t told until later. Where you get emails like “we are aware of the recent social media threats against the school and are working with the FBI…”— and you have no idea what the threat is, but your kid heard…(scary), you get news of a lockdown, but no reason, and where some Admins are just poor communicators.

Get back to me when your kid texts that the schools locked down and she doesn’t know why. And the email you get two hours later explains it as a “possible threat”.

[Anonymous]

Ah, gotta love the entitled Vienna Mommies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1. They are postponing a performance… not the original one they planned
2. I asked my children’s teachers and all of them said they didn’t know why it was cancelled and
3. The admin should give a reason why without having to ask, they are being obtuse and vague on purpose
4. If a parent complained, even if they were right, there were other ways to handle it than cancelling (postponing/postponing with the intent to cancel/postponing with the intent to revamp/whatever) the whole performance

Or maybe, they really aren’t allowed to say why the concert was postponed. Maybe the chorus teacher got COVID or had a medical emergency or death in the family or something else that is none of your business and protected by their right to privacy.

Maybe there was a social media against the school or the concert (definitely has happened to my kids school) or an elevated threat level for some reason, and it isn’t being announced while investigated.

Maybe there was serious disciplinary, bullying, harassment, etc among the kids issue at the daytime concert and it needs to be investigated and dealt with.

And I could go on, because my kids have been in FCPS for years and BTDT (at schools considered by DCUM to be “excellent” BTW).

Not only are you not entitled to an answer in circumstances like this Karen, privacy or security concerns would prevent it.

Go find a real problem.

DP. Usually some explanation would be given for postponing a school concert, however vague. You're just knee-jerk attacking.

Really— please tell us what you would say about the director having COVID (that respects his legal right not to have an illness disclosed), or a security threat (that the FBI okays and doesn’t panic the school) or a disciplinary issue (that doesn’t become a 20 page thread on DCUM of people saying things like “my kid say Larla said Jews are going to hell” before the situation was even investigated.

Especially since Flint Hill Mommy’s are apparently the most histrionic, gossipy Karens in FCPS.

The baffling questions here are why people care so much (that the reason isn’t given. I get why they care the concert was postponed). And do you have any real problems?

Buckle up. If this makes you this angry, you will never survive 13 years in FCPS where, yes, sometimes things are cancelled and you don’t get to know why, or you aren’t told until later. Where you get emails like “we are aware of the recent social media threats against the school and are working with the FBI…”— and you have no idea what the threat is, but your kid heard…(scary), you get news of a lockdown, but no reason, and where some Admins are just poor communicators.

Get back to me when your kid texts that the schools locked down and she doesn’t know why. And the email you get two hours later explains it as a “possible threat”.

Not sure why someone without kids in that school would be so rage filled about the original post. Very irrational.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ah, gotta love the entitled Vienna Mommies.

Couldn’t pay me enough to be an administrator there. Dealing with even just a few parents like OP would lead to heavy drinking on my part just to manage. A concert gets postponed and there’s a 5-page thread of anonymous posts.

[Anonymous]

Vienna and McLean moms have a reputation as being super gossipy and complaining about everything and you all sure are living up to it!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1. They are postponing a performance… not the original one they planned
2. I asked my children’s teachers and all of them said they didn’t know why it was cancelled and
3. The admin should give a reason why without having to ask, they are being obtuse and vague on purpose
4. If a parent complained, even if they were right, there were other ways to handle it than cancelling (postponing/postponing with the intent to cancel/postponing with the intent to revamp/whatever) the whole performance

Or maybe, they really aren’t allowed to say why the concert was postponed. Maybe the chorus teacher got COVID or had a medical emergency or death in the family or something else that is none of your business and protected by their right to privacy.

Maybe there was a social media against the school or the concert (definitely has happened to my kids school) or an elevated threat level for some reason, and it isn’t being announced while investigated.

Maybe there was serious disciplinary, bullying, harassment, etc among the kids issue at the daytime concert and it needs to be investigated and dealt with.

And I could go on, because my kids have been in FCPS for years and BTDT (at schools considered by DCUM to be “excellent” BTW).

Not only are you not entitled to an answer in circumstances like this Karen, privacy or security concerns would prevent it.

Go find a real problem.

DP. Usually some explanation would be given for postponing a school concert, however vague. You're just knee-jerk attacking.

Really— please tell us what you would say about the director having COVID (that respects his legal right not to have an illness disclosed), or a security threat (that the FBI okays and doesn’t panic the school) or a disciplinary issue (that doesn’t become a 20 page thread on DCUM of people saying things like “my kid say Larla said Jews are going to hell” before the situation was even investigated.

Especially since Flint Hill Mommy’s are apparently the most histrionic, gossipy Karens in FCPS.

The baffling questions here are why people care so much (that the reason isn’t given. I get why they care the concert was postponed). And do you have any real problems?

Buckle up. If this makes you this angry, you will never survive 13 years in FCPS where, yes, sometimes things are cancelled and you don’t get to know why, or you aren’t told until later. Where you get emails like “we are aware of the recent social media threats against the school and are working with the FBI…”— and you have no idea what the threat is, but your kid heard…(scary), you get news of a lockdown, but no reason, and where some Admins are just poor communicators.

Get back to me when your kid texts that the schools locked down and she doesn’t know why. And the email you get two hours later explains it as a “possible threat”.

Not sure why someone without kids in that school would be so rage filled about the original post. Very irrational.

Not rage. Amusement that THIS is living rent free in your head. And pity for the FH admin.

BTW— I watched this thread several days before commenting. When I did, it was because I’m amazed that one concert at one school is worth multiple pages on DCUM and was still going long after parents should have moved on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:WHY DIDN'T ANY OF YOU MOMMAS CALL TO ASK ABOUT THIS?? LAZY LITTLE LUMPY LUMPKINS.

Why didn't any Daddas....for the love of goodness shut it.