Take on the ballet scam

There isn't a bigger scam than the kindergarten aged ballet performance. Seven girls dressed in pepto pink prance onto stage in $100 outfits to an audience of dozens of aunts, uncles and grandparents who have shelled out $25 a piece to watch little Olivia crash head first into Perfect Penelope forcing artistic Allison to shove future Juliard student Stephanie into the lap of  the crazy grandmother screaming about the Lincoln Center esque performance.   There are weeks of rehearsals, hundreds of dollars in costumes, makeup and pictures and an entire day devoted to dress rehearsals and prep and when they finally get on stage it is 2 minutes of roller derby.   But the issue isn't even so much the performance your kid gives, it is the hour and fifty eight minutes of other kids who have less talent than a lizard's thumbnail you have to sit through and having to courteously clap for them, too.  

I have been forced to sit through a half a dozen of these things and have personality been responsible for a couple as my kid's been shoved into tights and a tutu and had their hair done up and makeup put on so that my family and in-laws have the pleasure of spending hard earned money on something as ludicrous as this, I know all sides of it.  

It comes down to the fact that you want your kid's lives to be magical and torture your family in the meantime 

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