Nativity play

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So my daughter came home really upset for not getting cast as angel one in the school play after weeks of practicing the lines
should i email the school or AIBU?

Everyone is forced to participate in sports too.

Yes, I think the children who are best able to confidently and clearly act the role should be given the parts.

I think every child should be given the opportunity to shine doing what they are naturally good at. It's just that for everything else, people seem to be quite happy with the concept that kids that excel at something get more opportunities in that area, whereas when it comes to drama, the kids who are actually good are expected to take turns with the kids who aren't.

Where I live people aren’t expected to be on the school sports teams whereas you have to participate in the school play regardless. Yeh you have to do PE. But it’s not the same as actually being on the school team. The sports teams are outside of school hours.i think it’s good when every child who wants to participate is given a small part in the play. It helps improve their confidence especially when they are small. I can’t really fathom why you have an issue with this. But each to their own i suppose.

One of my dc was 'the 3rd pole carrier' one year

What does this mean ?

Oh, kids never want the part they get. DS aged five was absolutely outraged at being ‘the wrong sheep’.

Like devastated

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My daughter cried and didn't want to do it at all.

The narrators are usually the most articulate children though. Parents actually need to hear them to get the gist of the wacky and wonderful story line that somehow works aliens/cowboys/time travellers into the Nativity story.

Everyone knows Gabriel says, "You're going to have a baby!" And the innkeeper say, "Sorry, no room."
Narrators are the most important.

DS had various parts along the way, was a Joseph at a non-school thing, was a narrator more than once at school stuff. We also didn't force him to go to the evening shows of a play he repeatedly said he'd rather do behind the scenes stuff for. There was far too much time wasted on drama at DSs primary, so much so that they routinely missed other important lessons.

No they don’t have many lines i think she just really thought she was gonna get cast as that for some reason; oh well she seems to have got over it now but she was really crying i felt bad, i said well
we can make the inkeeper look just as cool dont worry lol

So did I.

That's life though, and better to get used to it early and build some resilience, not everyone is good at sport, or selected for the first team...

I was Mary, my mother was thrilled.

I threw a spanner in the works, though, because apparently it was my job to bring in a doll to play Baby Jesus but nobody had told six year old me that, so I didn't. Ooops.

Angels do not rant! Tell her to wait until she can play Saint Michael in another play, they she can do some smiting!

Could the innkeeper be Bet Lynch? Kit the kid out in ancient Palestinian lepoardskin!

Seriously though your great mistake was sending her to school with a hand knitted Rudolph jumper saying🌲 ‘Satan’s favourite reindeer’ 🤶🏻🦌 Oops

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Excuse typo please. ‘Leopardskin’, obvs

I assume it's because this is a made up post and OP isn't actually sure on the age of Nativity kids lol. Because as far as I know, nativities don't have lines that kids practice weeks ahead of time, before even being given the parts 😅

What the hell? Oh my God, definitely pictured a little kiddie à la Snoopy/Charlie Brown type. Bit much in a considerably older child.

OP, whip out your copy of Let It Bleed and play her the inimitable ‘You Can’t Always Get What You Want’.
(Nice Bach choir on the track, for the season !)

If she’s a tween then I’m surprised she’s doing a nativity.

Probably!

The OP just jumped the shark with the "tween" bit. Absolute nonsense.

It means the thread is a poor effort at a wind-up.