I received this comment on my blog this evening...

My daughter loves ________. hearing this breaks my heart and i know will break her's. I am not sure why you would not want your daughter dancing with our girls? I think if you were on our side you would see what we are saying and thinking. Our girls are "babies" they are just 6,7,and 8!! They have not been dancing as long as ________. If they were not good enough to be in company, Heather would not have asked them. I am really shocked and frustrated to see all your comments about our tap group and our dance academy. I think as a mom you should be supporting all our girls no matter what your private opinions are. Typing these opinions are not supporting our girls. Letting ________ quit is not teaching her anything. It is teaching her she can give up and that my daughter and others are not as good as she is and that helping others is not a part of life. __________ is an amazing girl and an awesome dancer. I want them to be together. We want them to dance together. having ________makes them better...have you ever thought about that.

OK, since I have no clue who posted this I guess I will just have to respond to you through my blog and hope that you read it.  I'm sorry that you are upset that my daughter chose not to continue with the tap group.  She has disliked the dance (NOT the girls...she LOVES every one of them) from the beginning of the year.  By the middle of the year she still had not learned a single thing, so I requested that Heather begin solo tap class with her once a week.  She has loved this class and is flourishing but had continued to really dislike the group.  This has bothered me because as a parent I am having to pay for a group that she really dislikes, but I have told her that she had to stick with it.  Heather knew that she didn't like it, but she read my blog and I guess figured out the extent to which she disliked it.  I guess Heather passed on this information to Terri, and last week Terri told the girls in the tap class that she knew the dance was easy for some and difficult for some.  She then told the girls that if any of them wanted to quit, that was fine.  They had an understudy and an extra costume so go ahead.  My daughter came home and told me this and said that if it was really alright, she wanted to quit.  I contacted Heather and she told me that she had told Terri that it was OK to say this.  They didn't want anybody to dance unless they loved it.  I made sure that this wouldn't affect my daughter if she came back to this dance school next year, and she said it wouldn't.  I asked if it would be OK with the understudies parent.  I was then told that this parent actually had come to Heather earlier in the year because her daughter had decided that she wanted to tap once she saw the group dance and Heather said she couldn't just come into the group at that time.  She said that they had accidentally ordered an extra costume and that everything would be great and everybody would be happy.

My daughter loves all of the other girls and is 7 as well.  As a parent, I wasn't happy about her being in a group with girls with such a varying ability level because I wanted to see growth in her this year, but I was still going to make her stay with it.  When a teacher directly tells her class that it is OK to quit, what can I say?  I do support the dance school where she attends but I try not to get to close and involved because of past bad experiences with dance schools.  My main focus is my daughter and what is best for her.  I'm sorry if anybody has hurt feelings.  Believe me, it is nothing personal and my daughter loves you all!

Blessings to all, no hurt feelings please!