This is not my son’s play. In fact I believe there are no rabbits in our show this year
Is there a parent alive who is looking forward to the end of year school concert? If there is I don’t believe I have met them.
We have the “pleasure” of having our end of year concert early this year which is why I am feeling this pain a little earlier than usual. Added to the end of year concert delight we have the added bonus of a huge capital appeal fundraiser where we will not only try to catch a glimpse of our child singing out of key but we will also have the added pleasure of being asked to fork out a huge amount of money for this privilege.
It’s not the concert that I object to so much, and let me preface this whole outburst with the fact that I am an ex school teacher and I know how hard they work and I understand the need for practice, but it’s the HOURS and HOURS of rehearsal time that gets me.
At this point, as my son misses another day of school to practise lifting his hands in the air over his head for four hours, I am feeling a little over it. Not as much as him mind you, but still.
Can you imagine sitting through hours and hours of rehearsal where all you have to do is clap your hands over your head? Yes, you are right in assuming he does not have a lead role. I believe if you have an actual role in the play you have to move into the school to practice 24 hours a day. Or so it seems.
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So after spending about three months practicing lifting his hands in the air over his head I will go and watch him on Sunday night. I won’t be able to see him because all the kids will be wearing full school uniform and they look like sheep in their uniforms. Trust me, no one can discern one child from the other. If I do spot him I will spend about ten minutes deciding if I am close enough to video or if I should take photographs. If I take video I can be 100% assured no one will ever watch it, and that includes me even checking to see if it worked. If I take a photo it will live on my phone until the next time I drop it in the toilet by mistake. Don’t ask. By the time I have finished deliberating his part will be over and I won’t have seen it through any lens at all. Incidentally this will make no difference to either of our lives.
At the end of the play they will be asking for a donation. Now I LOVE my school and will happily donate to their capital appeal but I do think that I would be happier to donate more if he hadn’t missed so many classes to practice the hand lifting gig.*
By Monday when the play is over everything should return to normal. But it won’t because the kids may be so tired from hand lifting that they can miss half the day of school and start at 11:00. No wonder so many people go into acting!
Do you love or loathe the end of year concert?
* with no offence to people whose roles are more onerous than hand lifting.
My ten year old started rehearsing the song in week one and concert is week ten. I hear you
By week ten the song will make his ears want to bleed! I’m with you xx
I love a concert- I really do as my kids enjoy it and are good at it ( and not a lot else) and it saves me paying for drama/dance classes. Win win I say. I loved them as a child – all the excitement and dress ups and fun. And my kids love it too.
I think for the kids who have roles and are in to it it’s great but to make it compulsory for every child just makes it loooooooooong xxxx
Loathe loathe loathe.
Ours is hours long and everyone in the whole school seems to need to make a speech.
Every year we consider sneaking in a hip flask.
A hip flask for during and a valium for before 🙂
I only remember being in two school concerts when I was kid, and only in Infants and Primary school…
I played the White Rabbit from Alice In Wonderland in Kindy… nailed it!
I can still remember the lines:
“I’m late, I’m late – for a very important date – no time to say hello, goodbye – I’m late, I’m late, I’m late.”
[Exits stage, chased by a bear… or something like that…]
I also played a Koala in a school play about Noah’s Ark in 6th class… again, even though I had no lines to say, I totes nailed it! I didn’t just play a koala… I was the Koala…
Love that I know your White Rabbit lines as well as you do! I recite those lines often.
And you know I can really see you as a white rabbit – or even a koala 😉
In a word “loathe” (from a teacher’s and parent’s perspective) And they are so long (and it’s a bit rude to bring along a book or iPad 🙂