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Date Posted: 07:12:34 10/21/08 Tue
Author: DSDad
Subject: That has not been our experience.
In reply to: page down a bit 's message, "Whoa - big discussion on the GB board about how the boys 'have it so easy' ... http://www.voy.com/174296/" on 14:53:40 10/20/08 Mon

My son has been competing for about 2 years now. I have not seen a bias either against or for him. I am constantly told by many of the moms that the boys have it easier. This gets a bit old since I have no results to back up this opinion. Don't misunderstand, I think the judges are very fair and score him about right. I seem to see more bias based on the name of the dance school kids belong to than I do based on gender.

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[> Having crossed over to the dark side by going on a rant a few months back on another MB on the boy vs girl thing, I have -- just a mom of a dancer, 09:18:35 10/21/08 Tue [1]

vowed not to get upset about this topic. I was way off the deep end and thinking back, I'm not sure how (or why) I got so out of control over it! Lessons learned, I now accept the fact that yes, there are less boys so not as much competition as far as numbers, but there are some pretty fantastic male dancers out there. The number of dancers in a comp shouldn't take away from any dancer's successes. I refuse to accept my ds is where he is because he's a boy. I've seen many other boy's he's danced with in past years still a level or two behind and many girls he's danced with right up there with him now. So when I attended a feis this summer and heard another feis dad sitting behind me telling another "newbie" parent that the boy doing the treble reel (not my son) would get "boy points" and then went on to explain what boy points were, I just ignored it...and was much happier at the end of the day rather than getting steamed about it. I'm not out to change anyone's opinion on this topic, just trying to enjoy my child's extracurricular activity.


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