Warrior Idol 2017
By DW Davis
@DWDavis (25797)
United States
March 17, 2017 4:45pm CST
My schools annual talent show, Warrior Idol, took place today. The 25 students who originally auditioned had been whittled down to 6 finalists and today the finalists performed for the whole school, and a winner was determined.
When we started holding this talent show eleven years ago, as part of our fundraising efforts for the Red Cross, most of the acts sang. This year only two of the six sang. One played the piano. The other three danced.
The winner this year was one of the dancers. He did an impressive interpretive dance to a gospel song that brought everyone to their feet.
My job for the show is to tally the judges scores and determine the winner. There were 6 judges and they judged on 5 categories. I used a spreadsheet to accumulate the data. I've done this every show since the first one.
Something different happened for me this year, though. For the first time, I was not forgotten when the MC, one of our teachers, thanked all those who helped out with the show.
Have you ever been asked to help out with an event and then, after you did what was asked, your contribution was never acknowledged?
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@katsmeow1213 (28716)
• United States
18 Mar 17
Awesome! Sounds like fun!
For 2 years I helped out at every Marching Band fundraiser. I donated, showed up, gave up weekends and evenings.. last year I began to volunteer to chaperone, and due to chaperoning my daughter I had to miss a couple of very important activities of my son..
I coordinated a few fundraisers myself.
My husband's job donated over $1,000.
This past Spring I ran for a position on the executive board and didn't get it... after that the members of the executive board began ignoring many of the families, including my own. If they saw me they'd pretend I wasn't there. They wouldn't speak to me anymore. When you saw them out and about they'd be huddled around each other, laughing and having a great time, but nobody else existed to them.
Now I don't do a darn thing except go to the shows to support my kids.
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@katsmeow1213 (28716)
• United States
19 Mar 17
@DWDavis Yep, at first I took it personally.. but then I heard a bunch of others complain that they're being treated the same way..
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@KrauseHome (36445)
• United States
18 Mar 17
Many times. My husband and I used to Faithfully do the homeless missions for our church. When ever we tried to get help from others in the church everyone was too busy, and then the Pastor has never acknowledged us for what we were doing. We still are doing it, just not as grand of scale and most of the time never letting anyone know we even still do it.
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@Morleyhunt (21741)
• Canada
17 Mar 17
I've learned that unless your contribution is front, center and very visible, you will rarely get an acknowledgement.
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@DWDavis (25797)
• United States
18 Mar 17
One of our previous winners will soon graduate college with a Fine Arts in Music, with a concentration in opera, and recently finished an internship in Italy. Another played in the cast of The Lost Colony this past summer out on Roanoke Island, one of the oldest and most respected outdoor theater presentations in the US.
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@DWDavis (25797)
• United States
18 Mar 17
Last year, after not having been mentioned while everyone else involved was thanked, I decided I was done and would let someone else do it this year. But when a 6 month pregnant woman who is stressing out over the whole event asked me to do it, how could I say no to her?
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@Tampa_girl7 (54715)
• United States
17 Mar 17
Yes, and it is not a good feeling.
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@Marilynda1225 (91069)
• United States
17 Mar 17
Yes I was ignored many times for hard work but it does feel good when you're acknowledged.
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@andriaperry (118793)
• Anniston, Alabama
18 Mar 17
Yes that has happened to me.
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