Is it Inreasonable to stand up during a nativity?

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I am heavily pregnant and couldnt manage standing up for over an hour straight. I couldnt see a thing as every single perso stood up and those in the isle stuck their phones into the isle. Surely its rude to stand up, it started with people in the second row, not even the back!

Very rude of them.

Very rude. Back row only can stand.

That's strange, if it was a seated show I'd only expect people to stand at the back or round the edge of the hall. Was it on a stage?

I can sympathise. Every time I have gone to watch my DD in her nativity play parents/grandparents have stood up/put their phones up and I've managed to catch glimpses of DD through this. Unless you wanted or were able to, to get to the school about an hour early to get to the front row you didn't have much chance of seeing a lot of the play.

Its so rude. I don't know why the teachers don't say something before the play starts along the lines of being considerate to others. Probably wouldn't stop everyone but might make some people think.

Ask the school why they didn't take steps to stop this? They only had to warn the parents that the performance would be stopped if people stood up and obstructed each others' views, and I'm surprised they allowed photography.

Nativities bring out the worst in people.
At the school I used to work at, the Headteacher used to be in the hall at nativities and plays just to ensure that parents were behaving appropriately.

The head was there and it wasnt as bad as last year! Last year everyone was chatting the whole way through.
To be fair to the school it is very good on allowing photos and videos, but most parents are more considerate online than they are irl apparently! A few grand parents were upset afterwards. Presumably because they couldnt manage the stand either.

The school take videos of the play and sell them for a pound or send them online for free. It hasnt stopped the phone frenzy though unfortunately

That's totally selfish behaviour. But I really don't understand why some schools won't film it themselves and sell it to the parents. Ours don't but manage to charge for everything else!

This is one of the reasons our school don't permit photos or videos.
Entry is ticketed (programme) and 1 ticket = 1 seat. No standing allowed.
The school could easily fix this.

I really don't understand why some schools won't film it

Because some children can't be filmed.

Because those parents want a close-up of little Johnny do will film anyway.

Because if they have to pay parents will complain about the cost and film anyway so they get it for free.

Because if they have paid they will expect the production values of Game of Thrones not the caretaker standing at the back with a smart phone.

*so not do.

I can't believe they weren't told to sit down. Our head would have stopped the performance and told them to sit down or leave (she has done this to evict noisy babies/toddlers).

We remind people at the beginning of the performance that standing up to take photos will block the view of others. We make it very clear that they are welcome to stand at the back.

Either the headteacher or I would not hesitate to ask someone to sit down, if they were standing up and stopping others being able to see.

my dd was in at a sn school. I remember not being able to see as a staff member had their IPAD blocking my view(I went and told them)
we were lucky we were able to film it, but ds used to get special permission (photographer) and was given a special place(not blocking view) to set his stuff up. we always gave the school a copy too.

We have a back row that doesn't have any seats, so obviously this is standing only. We are allowed to all grab at photo at the end so we have people standing then. The first row is always reserved for our school governors who are always really tall men so no one can see anyway!

Oh we had a brilliant one yesterday. Mum let her toddler (maybe about 2 years) run up onto the stage and he caused havoc. She came to the front and instead of removing him she took pictures FFS.

There was strictly no photography at my dcs nativities, mainly due to the annoyance factor rather than safeguarding I think. Most of the ones I attended were before Facebook days.

The school used to send home a single photo of each child in costume against the backdrop and there was a DVD made that we could order. The local paper always had a nativity section with photos of the local schools, so you could order a copy of that which was great as obviously they were professionally taken photos.

It was always very civilised. Just two tickets per child and no babies pr toddlers at the main performances, but they could attend the dress rehearsal.