First Grade Music Program

Princess had her first grade music program last night - she was so excited! It was her first program at her school. They were sooooooo cute! They sang the cutest songs and got to play xylophones and sang together and actually watched their music teacher direct them and kept each other in line and giggled and smiled at their parents. Soo cute! Why don’t I have any pictures of my daughter’s first music program?

Because they pulled down a movie screen in the middle of the stage. Screen, big. First Graders, small. Screen covered up half the first graders. I asked the administrator if they could raise the screen because we couldn’t see half the kids behind it, and she said “No. The screen is there to show the kids’ illustrations.” Um, but we can’t see the KIDS . . . I’d much rather see the kids than the illustrations that we all saw them bring home last week anyway. Nope - no raising of the screen - what (pause for dramatic effect) EVER! Good thing is, Princess is small, so we could see the middle of her head down to her feet and actually saw her sing - and HEARD her sing - with 71 other first graders, I could actually hear my little Princess’ voice.

QT and I were looking at the program and noticed this on the bottom of the list of songs . . .

The music in this program may be derived from religious traditions.
It is included here for its educational value and does not imply
that the school district endorses any particular religious viewpoint.

So we kept listening to the songs, and you want to know what the “religious” reference was? It was when they were singing “This Old Man” and got to the part about “Seven up in Heaven.” Yup - that was the all terrible dangerous religious reference they were singing about. While I love our kids’ school and I firmly believe in our public school system, all I could do was shake my head and say “Seriously? That was it?”

I’d hate to see what would happen if someone heard that we talked to the Daisy Scouts about the Pledge of Allegiance last week and talked about the “Under God” part and why the sign language for that is what it is.