It has been a pleasure serving you over the past 2.5 years. Unfortunately, this email is to inform you that the CLC will officially be put on pause for the 2024-25 school year. We are not planning to offer any classes at this time.

This is for a few reasons:
1) Our location came together so late that unfortunately we had lost a good number of our students and teachers to other programs and life plans.
2) The growing number of options for homeschooling families (a great thing!) spreads thin our homeschooling student body. There are now multiple homeschool choirs, acting and performing opportunities, language classes, science classes, etc. and we rather support those than compete with them.

3) Finally, our landlords expressed hesitation about operating homeschool classes in their space. While I'm confident our students would have been sufficiently respectful, it may be wise to troubleshoot on the ballet end of things before committing to a year of homeschooling programming.

By themselves, none of these reasons would have been sufficient to pause the CLC, but combined they present a challenge that seems too complex to maneuver fast enough to pull together the kinds of meaningful educational opportunities our students expect and deserve.

We know you are making important decisions about the coming year for your family and we felt we owed it to you to make a decision ASAP. The few classes we'd be able to find and offer so late didn't justify the amount of time and logistical work to put a semester together.

What this means for YOUR family moving forward:
1) Anyone who paid the $20/year/family membership fee for 2024-25 will receive a full refund of that money. Please text your (parent) name and student's name(s) to the CLC at ‪(435) 915-6172‬ to open a communication about that refund. We hope to have those completed by Aug 15. (Refund requests made after Aug 15 may not be completed.)
2) We actually have our eyes on a path of future potential and possibility. It will require a rebrand and a relaunch, and IF it's even possible, it will take months to establish the connections and develop the programming. But pausing programming this year will give us the time to evaluate how the needs have shifted locally and if we should pursue exciting irons in the fire. We are hopeful we'll be able to serve the Cache Valley Homeschool Community in unique and dynamic ways in the future.

Rather than a forever good-bye, in the paraphrased closing of Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood: We hope to be back, when the year is through, and we'll have more learning opportunities for you. And you'll have things you want to explore with us. We will too!

Have a wonderful 2024 of engaged, hands-on, and happy learning! We'll be in touch!

Sincerely,

Steffanie Casperson
President, CLC