Online Challenge: What would you do?

Something rotten is in the air at MMU. And no, it isn't the smell of some sweaty football players running through the halls. No, wait, it is.

See, at my school, you get credit for sports, as a matter of fact, it is required that you get a certain number of these credits. Even the cheerleaders get credit for what they do. The games get much fan fair, they have huge fields on which to play.

But there is another group in MMU, and despite that fact that they are right under the spotlight, they aren't getting credit. I am of course talking about the Actors, and the members of the Theater Crews. The Drama kids.

Some would argue that jocks put a lot of work into what they do. I guess lifting weights and crashing into eachother headfirst, at least for football, could get tiring after a while. But lets say you challenged them to get up in front of a group of hundreds, and then you asked them to recite something they had memorized. Only it was hundreds of lines long, and they had to do it with feeling. Now imagine also asking them to follow a very specific set of highly choreographed steps, timed with their lines, to get across the stage. But they weren't alone, dozens of other people are working with them, sharing the story, each of them telling their own part. I don't know how easy they would find this. They get credit for what they do, so why don't we.

We take months of preparation, for something that we perform three times. But there aren't just actors, oh no, there is much more. There are people designing and creating dozens upon dozens of costumes, people building large, complicated sets. Knowing that they are just going to be torn down at the end. There are people painting these sets, and doing amazing art for our posters. There are people learning incredibly complicated dances, and songs. There are musicians playing in an orchestra. Above it all there is the booth, where in the lights crew and the sound crew sit, controlling hundreds of small dials and knobs, each with its own function. One mistake up there could ruin an entire play.

All this work is done, chorus work, art work, dance work and so much more. Some of these things, if done in other places, you would get credit for. But when you combine them all together, and then make things more complex by adding in a story and acting, you get nothing but the feeling of "We did good, we pulled that off well, and the audience loved it." We are all, in general, content with this feeling.

But still I ask, why do we not get some sort of credit for drama. Acting is a fine art, is it not? How about chorus, that gets you credit. Yet these give you nothing.

Its really just not fair.

That is what I would like to see changed at my school.

This is great, Gildron!
I agree.

Is it ok if you're not in High School? Would Middle School still count?

i have the same question as writing dog. but still, i guess you could talk about how you want to change the high school you are GOING to go to....

I think middle school should count. I don't see why it wouldn't, really.