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Grand daughter has moved on with her other sport and enjoying it. The ballet and dancing has taught her well and she has a great drive to want to to her best. She was at the top of her dance and was selected to go to summer school in Hong Kong which she loved. But the thing she said made me stop and think and a lot of parents should listen to the children. Her and and her friend were in a doubles event and they won and received a medal and she said I won this this because we were the best not because one person decided I was the best and I think she found this to be her biggest achievement.

Thankyou for your feedback, Grand daughter has moved on but did mention the other week how much she missed her dancing but being a teen she now has a life outside the dance. The sad thing is she never did mind coming second but it was the adjudicator stating the fact that the best dancer was not going to get the award which seems so wrong when it had always been giving to the best dancer on the day, The Adjudicator actually stood on stage and made this statement so it wasn’t just written in a report. The parents of the winner actually apologised for the outcome which really had nothing to do with them. As the Grand daughter has decided it is a false world you can always have the rug pulled out from under you in one sweep. Good luck to all the dancers and alway look over your shoulder you never know what is coming.

My grand daughter was a wonderful ballet dancer and went thru all the grades never getting less than 92% in all her RAD exams. There was a local competition held in her local area with a an adjudicator from out of the area as the to be the judge. The adjudicator also taught ballet and had a student that was always did well but could never quite pip my Grand daughter. Come the competition which was only open to locals Grand daughter came second, the girl that one was a lovely girl and it was it first time on point. The adjudicators comments were I am not awarding this award to the best dancer I am awarding it to the young dancer that I think may have a lot of promise. Grand daughter was guttered but a fair loser, after that she decided she didnt need people like this in her life and gave up ballet all together she was at advanced 2. How many other adjudicators are out there breaking teenagers spirits. She wasn’t a sore loser she has not won everything but always had fair treatment, just couldn’t see the point when adults get this petty. She is well adjusted and found a team sport which is is thriving at. She is also NCEA excellent s student.

Would anyone know how many students go onto the summer school wait list, and what are the chances of getting a call up. Thank you