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Dance Schools Use of Public School Facilities

Dance Schools Use of Public School Facilities

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Started by Anonymous 16 years, 9 months ago
As of January 2009 the Rutherford County School Board began rejecting all requests for dance schools to use any of the Rutherford County Public School facilities after years of allowing it. Rutherford County has many beautiful and spacious auditoriums that are only being used a few times a year. There are studios in this area who have used the public school auditoriums for their recitals for over 20 years. The school system benefits from the use of facilities financially by the rental fee paid by each dance school! Also, facilities use of Rutherford County Schools allows Rutherford County students to continue to perform and support the Arts. I hope that you will join me and help change this policy! By signing this petition you agree that dance schools should continue to be able to promote the arts to Rutherford County parents and students by holding performances in the Rutherford County School Facilities beginning November 2009. This petition will be submitted to the Rutherford County School Board on October 27th at 5:00 p.m. Thank you for your support!

Updates

October 23, 2009

I have spent the last few days talking with local studio owners who are heartbroken about the prospect of having nowhere to hold their spring recitals. The silence from the board is frustrating but it only confirms that we need to keep pushing for these spaces to host our children again.

October 23, 2009

Seeing this level of support for our local arts community is overwhelming. Growing up in these halls, I know exactly what these stages mean to our students and I am grateful so many of you feel the same.

Reached 100 supporters

October 23, 2009

6 Comments

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Tom Yamamoto
16 years ago Featured

Taxpayers paid for those buildings. They should be used by the community.

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Jessica Yang
16 years ago Featured

Ridiculous decision. These kids work so hard all year for one recital and now they have no place to go? Bring it back.

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Mike Murray
16 years ago Featured

What a waste of perfectly good auditoriums. Just let them rent the space like they always did.

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Sarah Reid
16 years ago Featured

My daughter has danced for 10 years and we always loved the high school stage. It makes no sense to block us out when the schools could use the extra money.

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David Ward
16 years ago Featured

Use common sense school board! Stop turning away free money.

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Kelsey Dixon
16 years ago Featured

It was so much better when we had local recitals at the school. Please fix this.

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