<p>Acting involves taking risks. I can’t imagine feeling free to fully take risks in class if you have to concern yourself that one “wrong move” might get you on the bottom 50% of the list that ends up cut. </p>
<p>Further, acting in a classroom involves collaboration. Students have to rehearse scenework outside of class and so forth. Again, I can’t imagine the competition that a cut system would bring out, versus a sense of collaboration, cooperation, sharing, supporting, and nurturing that exists without a cut policy. When half the class will be cut, there must be a sense of “survival of the fittest” and that has to permeate the classroom work and the social fabric of that group. Who will be left standing? It is like Survivor!</p>