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Date Posted: 17:07:05 08/01/24 Thu
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Subject: Re: the post below about transferring schools. It is time to get rid of the 6 Month Ban!! It gives too much power to the organization/teachers and penalizes dancers (more inside)..

The 6 month non-compete ban should be challenged given the new FTC noncompete rule that has gone into effect. The 6 month ban has not been legally challenged in many years (in the U.S.). Did anyone actually sign a contract with a non-compete clause or is this just an implied rule that we have blindly adhered to? Getting rid of the ban would eliminate the inequity of power teachers have over dancers. Too many bad teachers use the ban as retaliation. The way the rule is set up, if a dancer wants to transfer and attend a major, they must choose which major to miss to serve out the ban, which is unfair. If a school closes, the dancers are the ones penalized. The ban only serves to protect the organization and the teachers. In no way does it protect or help the dancer. The restyling excuse is ridiculous, either the dancer is ready to compete, or they are not, it should be discretionary.
We had a teacher who used the ban as a threat or would kick out dancers (out of spite), purposely knowing they would miss a major. These kids had worked hard to qualify and should be allowed to compete. This teacher would also bad mouth the dancers that she had kicked out, then try and block them from moving to other schools. Bad teachers like this one should not have the power to use the ban as retaliation, or worse, teachers should not have the power to block dancers from moving schools, slander transfer students, tank them at competitions, or ban dancers from having friends in other school (our old teacher would check her students social media and threaten to kick them out if they didn’t unfriend the dancer that she had kicked out). And yes, most of us left this teacher, and despite complaints to the CLRG, the teacher is still around, doing the same thing.
It’s time to get rid of the ban!

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