It's a shame when parents refuse to demand their children show respect. Cell phones should be turned off while the students show off their accomplishments in a public forum. Parents you want pictures but you should move to take your pictures not whistle or try to distract the student when they are on stage. What has happen in the past 20-30 years that adults feel these distractions are not ok. It only takes one idiot to spoil something special. Think and don't be that idiot.
I am very old school. When in grade school we were taught concert/symphony manners; you dress in Sunday best, you are very quiet and you do not applaud except when the conductor comes in and introduces the piece and then once the concert starts you are silent until the conductor turns toward the audience. We need to go back to having respect and manners.
I agree with the comments of this letter writer. It's been years of this sort of behavior from children and adults at the CES concerts. It's such a fun social scene that I think people forget that they're at a concert and need to refocus on the performance. Nobody wants to be the 'fun sponge' or 'Negative Nelly' offering admonishment to offenders. We can try again to do better next time.
I haven't seen this behavior after years of Connors Emerson concerts and now high school concerts but I will say that spending the whole time trying to hold a phone in the air for a sub par video when you could be watching the kids perform is strange to me and kinda rude.
Thank you for sharing this. I am saddened by this display of inappropriate behavior. We need to do better.
It's a shame when parents refuse to demand their children show respect. Cell phones should be turned off while the students show off their accomplishments in a public forum. Parents you want pictures but you should move to take your pictures not whistle or try to distract the student when they are on stage. What has happen in the past 20-30 years that adults feel these distractions are not ok. It only takes one idiot to spoil something special. Think and don't be that idiot.
I am very old school. When in grade school we were taught concert/symphony manners; you dress in Sunday best, you are very quiet and you do not applaud except when the conductor comes in and introduces the piece and then once the concert starts you are silent until the conductor turns toward the audience. We need to go back to having respect and manners.
I agree with the comments of this letter writer. It's been years of this sort of behavior from children and adults at the CES concerts. It's such a fun social scene that I think people forget that they're at a concert and need to refocus on the performance. Nobody wants to be the 'fun sponge' or 'Negative Nelly' offering admonishment to offenders. We can try again to do better next time.
I haven't seen this behavior after years of Connors Emerson concerts and now high school concerts but I will say that spending the whole time trying to hold a phone in the air for a sub par video when you could be watching the kids perform is strange to me and kinda rude.