The kids will have six (daytime) dress rehearsals for school audiences during the week and three weekend public shows ? a full schedule ? and they learn a lot in the process.

One of the biggest ironies about this weekend is some of the kids who will be brought to the cleanup by their parents will be some of the ones involved (in illegal activity) and the parents are unaware.

You can't develop dancers with three performances over one weekend. And you also cannot develop audiences and you also cannot develop sponsorships. Why would someone want to pay to be a sponsor of a production that is over in one weekend?

ROE is good for some kids, but hasn't been successful at our school,

It's such a huge event. It's the place for middle school kids to go.

High school kids always think they know what's going on, ... they needed numbers, not stories.