missing class

[Guest Medora]

I am very dedicated to my dancing and go to every class no matter what, but I am also very involved with my high school. Sometimes, I have events with my clubs that are mandatory unless we have a "legitamate excuse" which overlap my class times. These events happen very seldom, but they always make it impossible for me to attend my class that night. I try to tell my club officers that I have class and can't miss, but since I have class everyday they don't seem to think of class as a good enough excuse and get upset. I feel like I need to go to every class without failure if I am to be successful as a professional one day. This only happens about once every two months, but what should I do? Is is better to miss my class once in a while and stay loyal to my club completely or stay loyal to dance and possibly make the officers of my clubs mad at me? :confused:

[Mel Johnson]

Once every two months isn't bad, Medora. We have to live in a real world where sometimes schedules will conflict. We have to make things come out as well as we can, but sometimes there's no escaping the outside responsibility. It won't do you any harm in the long run.

[Victoria Leigh]

I don't know if your school does this, but when our students have to miss for something important, they will usually ask which class they can take at another time to make up that class. It's often good to take a slightly slower class every once in a while anyway

[Guest Broken Shimmer]

it's ok to miss once in awhile, usually at my studio if we miss a class we still have to pay but there are other times where we can make-up the class we missed by going to a different one, if it's ballet and en pointe we usually to a level down anything else it's either. Why don't you try and talk to to your dance teacher about making special arrangments with something like that if you're really unsure about missing classes.