Pros And Cons Of Pageants

rewards. In one year, the Miss America Organization provides more than forty-five million dollars of scholarship aid to more than twelve thousand women. With the help of this non-profit organization and their financial aid, a large percentage of the pageant participants have their degree or are in the act of earning their undergraduate or graduate degrees. Miss America’s Outstanding Teen can win thirty-thousand dollars in scholarships. In its thirty-five year history, this pageant has awarder more than one hundred and twenty-five million scholarships, annually awarding five million scholarship dollars. You have to be between thirteen and seventeen years of age to be eligible to participate in the Miss America’s Outstanding Teen pageants. The contestants can be high school graduates or have obtained their G.E.D. Also, the participants must be a citizen of the US and in good health. MAOT contestants cannot be qualified to compete in the Miss America Competition. The AJM Scholarship Foundation is the institution behind America’s Junior Miss. The AJM Scholarship Foundation awards …show more content…
Anyone can judge child beauty pageants as long as they meet the criteria for that competition and anyone can sit in the audience and enjoy the show. Some are asked to judge on the grounds of their background information on pageants and experience. You never know who is really looking at your child in the audience and what their intentions are, but one thing to keep in mind is that child beauty pageants do attract servers and pedophiles. Child beauty pageants are like a grocery store, where people can choose which child they want to take advantage of. When the judges critique the participants, some are quite harsh, “Some of these people merely base their co-called winners on one performance and quite possibly how much money mommy and daddy spent on their look,” (Sohm