Flint Hill Holiday Chorus Concert Cancelled
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Anonymous
We are rich, so you have to deal with it I guess. Sorry! |
Anonymous
+1. The email was probably written in a hurry so they didn’t know how much they wanted to share. That being said, there should have been a follow-up in the next day or two with a better explanation (can be easily couched in non-specific language) and more firm plans. But, you get what you pay for with public school. |
Anonymous
| I had to laugh when I found this thread. My kid is at FHES, and in the chorus. The concert has been a HUGE deal in my household. My kid has a role in one of the skits. He has talked about it every day for the last month! When the email came out, we were first just worried that there was a health emergency due to the lack of reason for postponing, and I’m glad that everyone seems to be fine, I do wish they’d followed up before winter break about rescheduling. My kid keeps asking me if I’ve heard anything and is really worried that it will end up being cancelled. I know that the concert is a small thing in the world, but it’s been so much fun to see my kid so excited. It would be such a bummer to not get to see the concert! |
Anonymous
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Two thoughts: for the person who said they went to a winter concert, maybe they didn't realize they are on the FCPS board, not the private school one?
As for there being teachers that could have covered- if it was the piano accompanist who fell ill or had an emergency, that takes practice and isn't something that anyone can jump in and do. Just my two cents worth of common sense. |
Anonymous
I have no affiliation with this school but am now following this thread for amusement. Most dads probably don’t care it was cancelled and were happy to not sit through this on a work night. - Vienna mom at a different school who understands the Vienna mom stereotype and also would not mind if any of our concerts were cancelled. |
Anonymous
Lol. And klassy! Waiting for the Real Housewives of Maple Avenue to air…. |
Anonymous
So now I’m supposed to celebrate Hanukkah and Christmas? Or am I not allowed to celebrate Hanukkah anymore? |
Anonymous
Wow, that didn't take long. I call a troll. An anti-Semitic troll trying to stir up anger against Jews for ruining Christmas. But that is almost certainly NOT the reason this was canceled. Jewish people DO NOT CARE if a holiday celebration doesn't include Jewish symbols, because Hanukkah is not a major Jewish holiday. It's not Jewish Christmas. We just don't feel this way about it. We don't even really want you to sing Hanukkah songs. That would be weird. |
Anonymous
So callous. It doesn’t bother you that many kids would have prepared for and anticipated it, perhaps had people traveling in to see it, and would be disappointed by a last-minute cancellation for no given reason? A PP posted something similar above about their child. Or wait, your kid is a loser who is only into video games. Now I get it. |
Anonymous
Due to unexpected illness, tonight's concert... Due to a security threat, tonight's concert... Due to an investigation into this afternoon's disciplinary issue, tonight's concert. Shockingly, no one's privacy was violated in the making of this message. |
Anonymous
Nah, my kid actually is in chorus and I know how these work in elementary school. You often can’t see your child, you definitely can’t hear them and spend longer parking and waiting than listening to the concert. I would never tell my parents the date and have them sit through the elementary chorus concert. Merry Christmas! |
Anonymous
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We got an official answer from the teacher: Grinch and Frosty are out: they were too Christmassy - Grinch stole Christmas and poor Frosty... I am not sure what was wrong with the snowman, something about decorations.
Instead of those 2 - we will listen to 2 patriotic songs on the 24th! I think the other songs passed the censorship. |
Anonymous
That's really really obnoxious. Did someone actually complain or did the administration just decide this on their own? |
Anonymous
Reminds me of the time our whole International Day Fair was canceled, after the teachers and students put tons of time into it, because the poster that went out to parents had some clipart of kids on it and the kids appeared to have "white features," and some parent complained and accused the principal of racism. The parent in question? Blond, blue-eyed, as white as you can get. And the people most negatively affected? All the non-white families who had been planning displays, dance routines, etc. |
Anonymous
DP. What principal was so chicken he or she wouldn't simply say exactly what you said here? That the ones who would be most negatively affected by canceling would be all the non-white families planning to participate? Or was this a parent-organized or PTA-organized event and the PTA panicked and canceled? I really question the details, not because I question you personally PP--I really am not -- but because if it truly was just one, white parent, complaining about clipart on a poster when the entire event was already arranged -- it sounds like that might not be the whole story. Surely a group of (white, probably) parents complained instead of just one? Or did the one threaten to...post all over social media about it, or....? I just find it hard to believe that no one dared tell ONE parent, "That's a terrible oversight, we agree, and we'll issue new posters immediately. But no, we will not cancel an event that dozens of families from countries including X, Y and Z have put many hours into--just because of ill-chosen cartoon clip art." No one dared tell her that?! If it really went down the way it was described to you, PP, that one parent must have been a real pill, and/or the school administration or PTA must have been completely wimpy. |