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Subject: Re: Professional/Amateur


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Date Posted: 01:39:07 06/02/03 Mon
In reply to: Jamie 's message, "Re: Professional/Amateur" on 13:36:57 05/27/03 Tue
 >It is true that the rule book states that amateurs
>will lose their amateur status if they teach, whether
>or not for money.

Not as much money as EADA and co would lose if they ever tried to enforce the rule, and probably lost 90% of their competitors in the process!

Pretty much every good amateur I know has helped out at a class at some time. They may not call it teaching, and they may not get any compensation, but they've done it. Not one or two of them, pretty much all of them.

Besides, the only reason for these rules is that the powers that be have a vested interest in keeping their little club exclusive. If they actually let on that a lot of allegedly qualified teachers were neither better teachers nor better dancers than moderate amateurs, the amount of money they get and the prestige their qualifications carry would be reduced to a level somewhere close to reality.

The people running EADA and such aren't stupid and they know all this. If they ever enforced the theoretical rules fully they'd render themselves irrelevant, so they don't. It's really as simple as that.
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