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Date Posted: 06:15:27 11/01/25 Sat
Author: Irish Dance Mom
Subject: Grades to PC… Teacher Discretion??

I am relatively new to Irish Dance, and have a question regarding moving up. We are located in the Mid America region. If a teacher has the handbook that outlines their rules on how many firsts a dancer needs in prize winner to PC, can they change it for some and not others? Or can they hold someone back even though they qualify for PC? Someone said this was against a CLRG rule

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In Mid-America, a dancer needs firsts in RL, TJ, HP and for girls, SJ AND teacher permission. So a TC could keep a dancer in grades, theoretically, forever. TC not required to treat dancers the same, so could give one permission and not another. (NT) -- Dm, 08:25:11 11/01/25 Sat
Certain schools in this region will hold students down for the whole year, yet require them to feis frequently. When my kid was in PC, there were dancers that had 6 or more wins still in PC. (NT) -- MA Mom, 16:14:25 11/01/25 Sat
They aren’t required to move up immediately. Most schools make them wait until the new year. -- Patience, 20:03:19 11/01/25 Sat
- If a dancer has won 3 PC comps in our region, the dancers knows the steps. (NT) -- Dm, 20:21:55 11/01/25 Sat
  - Was the question not about PW to PC? -- You forget, 11:44:21 11/03/25 Mon
    - Misread the post. (NT) -- Sorry, 07:52:38 11/04/25 Tue
There is no formal tracking of competitors as they work through the grades and championship levels, so regardless of published rules, TCs can do what they please. -- Have seen it all., 15:13:09 11/03/25 Mon
- If they can’t beat them in PW then they probably aren’t ready to move up to PC (NT) -- Why the rush?, 07:31:32 11/04/25 Tue
  - Because I want my dancer to dance her champ dances at every feis. Because the champs schedule at a feis is always better than the grades schedule. (NT) -- Long time dance mom, 09:20:05 11/05/25 Wed
  - If they are winning PW, then those kids aren't their competition anymore. Move up and be aspirational, not a trophy hunter. (NT) -- ., 04:42:15 11/07/25 Fri
  - Dancers want to move up if someone is always getting second being blocked by the same dancer they are ready. -- Rude comment, 14:10:19 11/11/25 Tue
Dancers are never required to move into champs from prizewinner (NT) -- dm, 06:33:35 11/10/25 Mon
2 1st places in each dance -- Momma, 03:07:53 11/13/25 Thu
There can be a reason -- Dancer, 06:27:08 11/27/25 Thu

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