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[quote=Anonymous][quote=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.[/quote]

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. [/quote]

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