Does it bother you if your child doesn't get a speaking role in school play?

c68zapdsm5i1ru · 14-11-2017 02:18PM #1

I've just heard a couple of mothers in work getting genuinely upset because their children don't have anything to say in their forthcoming nativity plays.

At my niece's school every single child is given at least one line, which I think is nice.

I'm just wondering if many parents get annoyed or upset if their child is just a tree or something and doesn't have any lines?

uck51js9zml2yt · 14-11-2017 02:20PM

I picket the school when mine doesn't get a speaking part.

SEPT 23 1989 · 14-11-2017 02:24PM

they must have very little to worry about

Aglomerado · 14-11-2017 02:26PM

I had a speaking part in mine circa 1988.

Third Shepherd: "Hey! Jeremiah! Wait for me!" (Exit stage)

The most poorly behaved boy in the class was given the part of GOD's voice.

:D because it meant he could be backstage and therefore not drawing attention to himself.

A lot of the assignment of parts was politics in our school, whose parents the teacher was friendly with (Mary and Joseph), who were the messers (God, Third Shepherd) etc.

We didn't have trees though. It was all tea towels and dressing gowns.

c68zapdsm5i1ru · 14-11-2017 02:26PM

One of the mothers is thinking of 'having a word with the teacher' :eek:

Permabear · 14-11-2017 02:29PM

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Pac1Man · 14-11-2017 02:30PM

The kids may not want a line. I was quite happy being a quiet shepherd.

Still stole the show. How I wore the tea-towel spoke to the crowd in a way which words simply could not.

Dravokivich · 14-11-2017 02:31PM

To be honest, you could be putting some pressure on a kid who isn't confident enough in doing it in the first place. Some kids don't even like doing it. Just let them have a bit of time on the side of the stage.

Carra 8 · 14-11-2017 02:32PM

I wouldn't allow mine in a play if I had kids

c68zapdsm5i1ru · 14-11-2017 02:32PM

Permabear wrote: »

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I've no idea. At my niece's school so many of the children mumble their line reluctantly that no one can hear what they're saying. Some children are just not natural performers and would probably be just as happy being in a crowd scene with their parents waving from the audience.

Permabear · 14-11-2017 02:40PM

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cantdecide · 14-11-2017 02:41PM

Participation medals... be grand

whoopsadoodles · 14-11-2017 02:43PM

Ah stop.

Annoyed over a nativity play?

The kids are destined for disaster of their parents are upset about some thing so petty. Janey mackers.

whoopsadoodles · 14-11-2017 02:44PM

Rylie Large Bow wrote: »

One of the mothers is thinking of 'having a word with the teacher' :eek:

Well, her child is going to have a tough aul life when he realises that mummy can't sort out all of life's problems for him.

Fcuk me. I dunno.

tupenny · 14-11-2017 02:46PM

I know plenty of those parents.
Heard 1 moan last xmas as her son didnt get to open a window on the advent calendar in the classroom.
Its amazing to witness how pathetic they can be.
Gotta pity their kids really, stupid crap like that bothering the parents more than the kid

whoopsadoodles · 14-11-2017 02:48PM

Imagine saying to your child "that's a sh*t part, why did the teacher give you such a sh*t part?" :pac:

Burial. · 14-11-2017 02:50PM

It takes skill to be a tree in the corner.

Hannibal_Smith · 14-11-2017 02:50PM

I'd love a mother in the school to say this to me. I'd laugh in her face :pac:

Lux23 · 14-11-2017 03:03PM

It would depend on the kid; if I felt they were talented and the teacher was acting the maggot then I might be annoyed. I wouldn't do anything about it though, it would only embarrass the child.

whoopsadoodles · 14-11-2017 03:06PM

Lux23 wrote: »

It would depend on the kid; if I felt they were talented and the teacher was acting the maggot then I might be annoyed. I wouldn't do anything about it though, it would only embarrass the child.

Talented though?
It's a school nativity. Not auditions for the X Factor!

Pac1Man · 14-11-2017 03:16PM

"You look like a sheep, you sound like a sheep, you have a big future ahead of you."

flatty · 14-11-2017 03:17PM

My young lad was a rock one year. Not joking.

whoopsadoodles · 14-11-2017 03:17PM

flatty wrote: »

My young lad was a rock one year. Not joking.

:pac:

I love it

branie2 · 14-11-2017 03:17PM

I was the narrator of the Nativity play one year

whoopsadoodles · 14-11-2017 03:18PM

branie2 wrote: »

I was the narrator of the Nativity play one year

Good for you branie.

2015 was it?

Hammer89 · 14-11-2017 03:23PM

Rylie Large Bow wrote: »

At my niece's school every single child is given at least one line

Is that for the nerves?

optogirl · 14-11-2017 03:26PM

Rylie Large Bow wrote: »

One of the mothers is thinking of 'having a word with the teacher' :eek:

FFS - I taught drama in a primary school for a year. You wouldn't believe the amount of Mammies & Daddies coming up to tell me that their little darling wanted to be X part or Y part in the end of school play. Oh do they? You should have said. I didn't realise your child was more important than the others :mad:

Boom_Bap · 14-11-2017 03:28PM

These are probably the parents that yap throughout the play until it's their child's part and they demand everyone else ssssshhhhhhhhh'ssssss

branie2 · 14-11-2017 03:28PM

whoopsadoodles wrote: »

Good for you branie.

2015 was it?

1988

Dravokivich · 14-11-2017 03:30PM

branie2 wrote: »

1988

I take it David Attenborough won't be ****ting himself so.

Badly Drunk Boy · 14-11-2017 03:44PM

I'd have been horrified if I had to be in a show. In fifth class of primary school, I was forced to be the back end of a donkey. At 44, I'm still not right.

Does it bother you if your child doesn't get a speaking role in school play?

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