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Dear Darlings and everyone,

We write this note to you all with a sad and heavy heart, as much as we would like open for another term at the Academy, we sadly cannot. Due to staffing issues, and trying to get enough teachers to cover all classes so no one can miss out.

We opened the Academy we wanted the kid community to have something fun to do, but we are not wonder woman and cannot run the show by ourselves. We need to rely on teachers and when we see our staff looking bleak, it makes us question to push for another term or wait for a while and see if there is something we can do.

We held a survey on plurk and in group notices as were curious on what we can do to improve and see if we can raise more interest from future staff members, unfortunately as much as we loved the ideas it wasn't enough. As you all know, running an Academy especially to a ballet school a lot of students would like to join and as we do not like to reject everyone. It breaks our hearts to do this especially with how much work we have put into the Academy and the Recitals.

We are not going to rule out Academy all together but for now, especially with camp around the corner we may consider it in the future if we have the right amount of staff. With that said, I know a couple of teachers who will do private group sessions for those who want to remain in Ballet. Nothing confirmed. We know a lot of people have been waiting for the second term but I am sure you will all appreciate us more by not opening a second term when we do not have the staff we need to cover you all.

We hope you all understand, and will not be mad with us but we have to do the right thing, and this has been thought out very carefully and not some random moment of discussion. It takes a lot of time and money to run an Academy and as we are perfectionists, it will pain us to provide something not worth your while.

We tried our best, but unfortunately it was not enough. We would like to thank everyone that has been part of this journey with us and have always supported us.

Best regards,

Effi & Elvi.