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  1. Chin up - you have made decisions based on your DD's current wants/needs, you have to do what is right your her, you cannot make decisions around the fact it may upset someone. You have to be able to look in the mirror in the future and say I did everything I could to help DD. I am sure the friendship that she has with her current duet partner will carry on regardless of where they both dance, and her dance partner will understand and support the decisions you have made. She wont be the first to move dance schools and am sure she wont be the last
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  3. Thank you to everyone who taken time to reply, it is good to see differing views Yesterday I picked DD up from her residential at York Scholars, she had an amazing time with her friends, thoroughly enjoyed it, and can't wait to go back next year! My plan now is to go on holiday relax, forgot about dancing (it has been nice to be out of it for a week), start York Associates in September, and then start to talk to other teachers and look at different schools feeling better that lots of other mums have gone through the same type of thing and survived
  4. Thanks dancetaximumx2 - it's good to hear that it turned out well for you and your girls
  5. Wow - thanks to Balleteacher, Anjuli_Bai, Staceydor Aileen and t-rose for sharing your experiences and knowledge, you have given me different thinks to consider and think about. I'm looking foward to watching DD and her friends in the end of YBS summer school performance on Thursday. I think the most important thing that I have never taken into consideration is that I am a customer and am paying for a service. I have felt loyal to the dance teacher but this is starting to fray. Shygirlsmum - hopefully we can both do the right thing for our beautiful budding ballerinas. And thanks everyone for congratulations on getting into York we are so proud of DD ????.
  6. Thank you drdance and farawaydancer I feel DD needs all the support and help that is available to her, she currently takes Ballet, Tap and Musical Theatre she also swims, although we know the swimming may have to be shelved once she starts at York in September. I think the hardest thing about thinking about moving school is the friendship and loyalty - I feel as if I have spent a huge chuck of the past 7 years at the school and its going to be a hard habit to break, also the inevitable meeting at festival time is worrying me too
  7. Thanks Harwel and 2dancersmum When DD and her friends started at the satellite school we were told that if they took the same disciplines that they take at the regular dance school they would not be able to be entered into the festival for the dance school, my DD takes the Musical Theatre class at both schools and a few of the girls also take Jazz or Singing at the satellite school which are not offered at our school, so we have no clashes of style. The dance teacher has let one of DD's friends join another ballet class for extra practice, but flatly refuses to offer my DD anything else, if I take her to the satellite school for extra ballet, the dance teacher will then stop her entering festival with her ballet, character and song and dance, which is the part of dance that my DD loves. I have tried to keep an open mind on the local theatre group productions, and now we know were the auditions are advertised we can keep up to speed with that ourselves. I'm not a dancer - so all help/advice is greatly received - I think the next step is to talk to some of the other dance schools about DD and what classes support they can offer us, I have always thought DD was an ok dancer, but never thought we would have to make choices about dance schools and classes that's the scary part!
  8. Hi everyone - this is my first post my DD is 10, she has attended the same dance school from age 3, I never thought it was for anything other than fun, she started to compete in local dance festivals age 4/5 and has had reasonable success in these, last year a famous "London" school started up a satellite school in our area offering lots of difference classes and DD and a group of her friends are attending classes there in addition to the ones they attend at regular dance class, this is creating friction with the dance teacher, she isn't happy about us attending the other school, even though it has not impacted on her at all, she has let other girls know about auditions for production at our local theatre, but has clearly excluded the girls who are attending the satellite school. The next bit! whilst watching the ballet sections in the dance festival earlier this year, I commented to my friend how good the girls who attend York and Leeds Associates are, she had never really heard of these, her daughter is an excellent dancer and had great success in the festival, my friend looked into York and managed persuade our dance teacher to sign the audition forms, I didn't hold up much hope of my DD getting a place, and our dance teacher made it quite obvious that neither did she, but all credit to my DD she has got a place. DD and I have asked our dance teacher several times if DD can join in with another ballet class for extra practice (she currently only does 45 mins a week) to be told no, I am quite worried that when she gets to York in September she will fall behind and perhaps not hold onto her place. I am seriously considering the need to change DD's dance school, but not sure the best way to proceed, do I move her with her friends (we are all fed up of the tension) as they are a "dance family" and have a great relationship, or do we tough it out and hope it improves. If anyone has any advice its greatly received
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