Quick Poll Results

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Method:

We posted the following poll on SmartGirl.org:

Do you like ballet?

Gracie, age 13

Results:

This chart shows how SmartGirls voted in the poll:

Results: do you like ballet? Yes: 276; No: 312

The results were close, but most SmartGirls voted no: I do not like ballet.

Some SmartGirls gave the following reasons for their vote:

Yes:

Cora, age 15, says:
I've done ballet since I was five. :)
Karina, age 14, says:
I can't do it, but it is very beautiful and expensive and you would be very talented if you master it.
Loren, age 18, says:
Because I love dancing
Dria, age 16, says:
It's my passion, my life!
Cornelia, age 14, says:
It's pretty. Ballet is pretty much gymnastics withouth tumbling.
Elizabeth, age 13, says:
It's structured and exact, like me
Sarah, age 13 says:
It's graceful and pretty.
Cozzette, age 14 says:
I think it is a very fine and beautiful art to watch
Annie, age 13, says:
So much stretching and you become really flexible!
roro281, age 15, says:
I think it's classy.

No:

Heather, age 15, says:
I can't dance, and I've never been interested in watching it either.
Clare, age 11, says:
It is so slow
Emma, age 15, says:
I've never been a girly-girl.
Crystal, age 16, says:
I'm more of a sports kind of girl
Rae, age 12 says:
I'm too clumbsy for it!
Terra says:
It makes me sleepy and I don't dance
Brittany, age 14:
Because I don't know how to do ballet
Rilo, age 12, says:
I like watching, but not dancing.
Danica, age 12 says:
wayy to girly!!
Maisey, age 12, says:
'Cause I can't stand on my tippytoes!!!

Discussion:

Did you ever dance ballet? Was it because you wanted to or because someone else wanted you to? Have you watched a ballet? What show did you see? How did you like it?

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