What are the ballerinas you know like? Are they mean and snobby? Are they rich? Can they afford Disney vacations? What do they eat?
You seem to have a fixation on they extra curricular activities of young (mostly) women and their demeanor.
I don’t know any ballerinas. With apologies to @CmdrShepN7Cmdr for hijacking the thread, I have a side question: What do you think of competitive fencers? Are they actual athletes? Are they elitist?
And while we are on the subject - what about possible behind the scene political maneuvering with regard to the choice of student crossing guards? How do they make those choices at your school? While it isn’t keeping me up at night, but I do tend to wonder.
I think we have the answer now as to whether or not the other thread was really raising a legitimate issue.
Maybe it’s just an age thing. Don’t they discuss such things on some student message boards and threads?
First cheerleaders, now ballerinas? Why the preoccupation with labeling teenage girls based on the sports they prefer?
I’m starting to have credibility issues here.
It keeps me up at night. We have an adult crossing guard that can back up traffic for blocks. She has no idea about equitable flow of both foot and car traffic. :-t
Well that’s what happens when you don’t have a “nice” test for crossing guards.
Oh the police power corrupts even the nicest of those crossing guards!
So what do ya’ll think about kids who play Mass Effect? Do you think nice well adjusted kids play video games like that? Are kids who watch TV Sci- shows weird? Do you think they are rich because they can spend money playing online video games for hours on end? I don’t know maybe we ought to have a law that segregates weird, video playing, sci-fi lovers from the truly intelligent, talented, rich and beautiful? :-??
@Sherpa my husband was a competitive fencer in college, he is definitely an elitist, that why we raised a cheerleader, she started out in ballet though. 
If anyone needs used fencing equipment, just let me know. I have a ton. Maybe literally.
ooops - nevermind - before the PMs start flooding my mailbox-- I forgot my promise to save it all for the grandchildren.
on the other hand, maybe I could give away some of the duplicates. Are they really ever going to remember how many of each type sword? Maybe I could give away half a ton. I’m going to go do an inventory sometime this week. Then I am going to make up a formula: number of X swords + number of Y swords divided by number of grandchildren already born + number of grandchildren expected at the moment + numer of hypothetical future grandchildren based on reported plans.
I think we have enough swords for a smallish army. I am not expecting all that many grandchildren.
By the time your grandchildren are old enough to fence, we’ll have light sabers and be able to play Jedi mind tricks.
fwiw - I did not keep the light sabers
nor around two tons of action figures, including Star Wars
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