Stupid, bloody "dances" being put on by girls at school

[Pantone363]

There seems to be a trend at the moment for girls to be allowed to organise and put on dances for the class. It was one occasionally a few terms ago. Today both DD and DS didn't have story time before the end of school because girls in the class had organised a dance to show to everyone.

There's been repeated problems with girls being excluded from dances and it being used to bully and pick on children who are in then out then in then out.

Where is the educational value? Some of the songs the year 6s are using are utterly inappropriate for a primary school. I've spoken to one teacher who seemed to agree but said once they'd said yes once it was unfair to say no to others.

AIBU to think the school should just say a blanket NO from now on?

God, that's madness OP, I would be furious! What a waste of time. What do other parents think?

I too would be really cross if this was taking place during my child's school day, something I am obliged by law to send them to, in order for them to be educated. Watching a couple of show offs do a dance definitely doesn't constitute an education IMO.

And the bullying aspect of the dances is even worse than the actual fact that others are being made to watch the crappy dances!

Just make sure pictures are taken. Keep them for 20 years then kindly pass them on to your DC to share on Facebook or whatever we'll be using then.

I have some excellent photos I unearthed recently of such girls dancing to the spice girls (in full costume of course). Excellent to embarrass them with for many years to come.

Dd did a play to perform to her class a few weeks ago. Group of girls got together, wrote the play and practiced.
Behind it all, I was to find out from a friend who also has a dd in the class, was a trail of bitchyness, bossing and exclusion. All that stuff tends to go over dd's head but turned out one girl was excluded and then thee where many 'your out' 'you're back in' dramas. The whe thing was lead by the girl ring leader and madam.
The whole 'performance' in every sense of the word is something I would not like to see repeated. Yes writing a play etc has educational value but it ended up, from what I managed to find out, as a tool for little miss bossy to work on her being a madam skills and the other girls had to just fall on line or risk the fall out.
I think the teacher probably regretted giving the go ahead and can't see her making that mistake again. You simply can't trust 8 year old girls not to get their claws out with each other!
In the end I hear the play was actually very good. The dramas got sorted and the excluded girl really didn't care to be involved anyway!
If this became a regular thing it would be deffinatly something I would want to talk to school about, probably going in gently with the talent show idea.