This was the first studio that I had danced at. My sister and I practically grew up there. When I began dancing for the "Company" and had several hundred dollars wrapped up in this studio, Mrs. Andy would humiliate me in front of the entire class. We were never encouraged to be friendly dancers to other studios at workshops and competitions. The classes were a waste of time, especially when my mother would leave work early to get me to the studio on time. Only to find out that the classes wouldn't even start on time and that the teachers and other students would just gossip and eat during the class. We didn't even work on the "dance" because they wanted to workout instead. Every time I went home for the night, I would cry the whole way home. I left after being involved for 15 years and I'm so mad that I wasted so many good years of dance at Robert Lee. You really don't understand how a dance studio is suppose to be run like until you go somewhere else.
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