is the school being mean or am I being pfb

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So my dds school runs a drama club for year 5 and year 6. Good so far. However they hold auditions for places as the club performs at the end of the year to the whole school.
Dd went for an autition with 8 of her class mates and she was the only one not to geta place.
Aibu to think that they should be able to find something for each child wanting to be involved.
I can understand auditions for secondary aged children but these arr primary aged children.
Or am I being pfb.

Seems mean. I agree with the other commenters who point out that most productions can make room for a few "extras" in the cast.

It is particularly bad that they took 7 out of 8. If only two or three got places, it wouldn't seem so bad. It certainly appears that she was singled out for rejection, rather than rejection being the norm and a lucky few getting through.

I might approach the teacher/school. On the presumption that there has been some sort of misunderstanding. It just seems a little odd and not what you would normally expect.

Ooops, didn't realise there were further pages to this thread, seems events have already overtaken my response!

I go back to my post of yesterday LittlePeaPod - how do they learn (the sport skills, or the drama skills or whatever it is there is selection for) if they are not given the chance to go along to the club / training in the first place.
It would seem sensible, if this club is so very popular, to restrict it to just one year group, rather than two, or to do a (less ambitious) production at the end of term, then start afresh with those who wanted to have a go but didn't get in.

If you restrict it to Y6, then you start from first base every time, if you have 5/6 then you may have some in the following year that can be teachers and group leaders.
Restrict it to 5 and you lose the chance to let Y6 leave with something spectacular to remember, and the chance of working at a different level with children that are a year older
It makes sense to have parents run a drama club for lower KS2. But the likelihood of that happening is small.

Sadly my daughter has similar problems with sport. Although I have now got her on a skills course so she can improve.

Christ no wonder kids these says are entitled little gimps.

She wasn't good enough so she has two options practice and get better, or give up.

There shouldn't be a "oh no we can't select people on ability that's mean to the crap ones, give everyone a part" option because that's frustrating to the ones who actually worked for there place.

BackforGood like I said earlier. They can still go and train but they don't have to automatically get a place on the team competing if they are not up to the mark.

I doult that many nine year olds "work hard to get a place". I imagine that most children of that age have had no exposure to drama to gain experience.

Our primary has a huge choir where they put everyone who hasn't got a part. Its complusory that every child take part and its only the main autitions that are autitioned for.

I think we'll have to agree to disagree there then. Having watched my dd (and of course lots of other pupils) play many, many games against other teams over the 2 yrs she played football at her Primary school, I saw how much they all improved, through playing competitively. "Just" training is soul destroying - it's the same as learning an instrument but never being given the opportunity to showcase it. The teacher used to play weaker teams against weaker opposition. At Primary they play 7 a side and he'd always have 10 girls there for the matches, so he could strengthen the side, or less more of the less experienced girls play against the weaker opposition. When they first went to training at the start of Yr5, none of them were anywhere near the standard that they were at the end of Yr6, and you could see the Yr5s that joined when my dd was in Yr6, blossoming in the same way - through being given the opportunity to experience matches.

Oh, and to show it works, they won nearly all the leagues and cups they entered, and when they didn't, they were runners up.

sorry - x posted with ReallyTired, that was replying to Little PeaPod

BackforGood. I agree we need to agree to disagree.

Primrose123 reading your post about choir was uncanny. My DD in Y3 has been gutted that she wasn't 'allowed' to be in the choir. It really hasn't got junior school off to a good start for her. My neice is a primary music teacher and is so happy that kids want to sing that every child is included in her choir club.