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