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Date Posted: 28/04/25 16:11:05, Mon
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Subject: TCRG here, closed my school recently. Thoughts inside.
In reply to: curious teacher thinking about opening a school 's message, "Genuine question - how do dance teachers make enough money not to have a day job ? Especially small schools - what’s the secret to this?" on 27/04/25 20:42:44, Sun

First of all to address the 'cash in hand' comment - obviously I can only speak for myself but, before the pandemic, I had parents pay me in cash. This was purely because I worked full time and didn't want to have to reconcile attendance with BACS transfers, deal with refunds etc. I had a paper register where I could check off who attended which I then transferred onto a simple spreadsheet. This enabled me to keep track of my income and expenditure because YES I submitted a self-assessment to HMRC every single year. So while it was 'cash', it was all accounted for. After the pandemic I didn't want to handle cash so we did monthly invoices instead but I still declared everything.

Here's the kicker though. The expenses were so great that virtually every year I received a tax rebate as I was making a loss teaching dance and subsidising my school through my day job income. This was because I kept my class prices as low as humanly possible.

So, there was never any question of me being able to teach full time - absolutely wasn't ever gonna happen as a sole TCRG without even any unqualified assistants.

Not clear from your post if you're already qualified or not so general advice here: Take your TCRG if you want to, but work on your actual career as well. If you do qualify and want to teach, see if you can join an established school. Teaching was great fun; running the show was draining. Let someone else deal with running the business. And if you ARE a TCRG and you're assisting in someone else's school - stay put.

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  • Ours all have real full time jobs. (NT) -- hard workers, 28/04/25 17:57:21, Mon
  • Hard workers aren’t we all ,screw the parents over then for bags 💰 (NT) -- Easy cash for good times, 28/04/25 21:19:43, Mon
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