http://shine.yahoo.com/team-mom/elementary-schools-hold-beauty-pageants-181000634.html
So there's this elementary school in South Carolina that wants to hold a beauty pageant. ARE YOU KIDDING ME? that school is insane if they really think that's a good idea. One of the mom's said that her daughter came home crying because she didn't think she was pretty enough to enter. Is this really what we want to teach our kids? That all that matters in life are looks? We're supposed to teach children to have values and to be good people not that your facial beauty is what will get you by in life. One of the judges said "Let's think about the other activities children do—football, dance, soccer, swimming, ice-skating—all of those things are judged." Ummm you can't compare sports to a freaking pageant. Sport are 1.) based on athletic ability and performance not judging who has the most facial beauty and 2.) aren't judged, you compete and let your performance dictate who wins, not a person who is biased to a certain type of look. So no, i don't think elementary schools should hold beauty pageants.
I totally agree with you. This should not be able to happen. If parents want to be awful to their children and force them in to pagents then fine, whatever. But don't mix that into school. School is created to educate and by adding pageants into a learning enviornment it only causes children to think that beauty is most important from a young age. LET THE KIDS KEEP THEIR CHILDHOOD FOOLS!
ReplyDeleteYeah this is a terrible idea. And like you said Jenna, people win in sporting events because they work hard. They put so much effort into practicing their port. As for beauty pageants, you are either good looking, or you're not. Theres not much you have to work on to win this. That is so sad and this would most liekly cause mor bullying amongst children. I really hope they decide not to do this in the end.
ReplyDeleteWhat should we do about this problem. It is one thing to say we shouldn't do this, but a whole other to propose how to handle this problem and make some positive changes.
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