Ridgewood Performing Arts Ctr

Great website with a good variety of classes and times. The place takes a non-redundant deposit which is almost half the year's tuition before classes start. That would be fine if the place was good. Initially my child enjoyed class as the teacher was nice and encouraging. Payment for the entire year plus an additional costume fee for the spring recital which of course every parent wants to see their child(ren) in is due within 3 months of starting classes. All non-refundable. Now the class has become even worse, as the few students who have no attention span are completely disruptive and not improving in what would have been acceptable behavior in the beginning. The teacher who was nice in the beginning is no longer so pleasant. This could be understandable if she is frustrated by the lack of improvement but she spends all of her attention on one of the more disruptive kids and allows the kid's mother to come into the class (to help her kid?) further distracting the other kids. So now the place has collected all your money and you are stuck there for the rest of the year.