My dd's dance school goes a prize giving each year. One year a new girl started, the first day I saw her mum outside and she said that she had changed schools as the previous school wasn't challenged her enough, as her dancing was exceptional.
From what I saw during the year, and I've hung around waiting and sometimes watching dance classes for 15 years now, you can pick up which child has a natural talent and which has to work a little bit harder. This particular child really did fall into the latter category, but I had expected something exceptional from the way her mum spoke.
Roll on to the end of the year and prize giving was in full swing. The mother got up with a box and asked for the microphone. So we all thought she was donating a trophy or something. She got up and proceeded to award a huge trophy to her own daughter, for being the most amazing dancer in the school and blah blah blah. The dance teachers eyes went like saucers, as she had no clue the mother was going to do this. The trophy was massive, but also it was a crystal one. If she had been at any previous years prize giving, she would have known that only one crystal trophy goes out each year, to the dancer of the year. It's the top prize. Which this mother completely overshadowed.
We all sat there speechless! And then afterwards the child was swanning around with this damn trophy which she really didn't earn.
The dance head had words with her after, and the following year she never returned. I feel sorry for the child though. She probably did the same thing at the next school as well.