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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What were the teachers doing during all this?

My 4 year old is in a ballet class, and parents do not intervene. The teacher ably handles any horseplay, inattention, or other misbehavior. These things happen, since the kids are young (4-6), but the teacher immediately addresses it and keeps the class moving.

If your response is "But these are 2 year olds, of course the teacher can't manage all of their misbehavior at once," that's just more confirmation that the class is not age appropriate. [/quote]

It sound like OP is doing a parent participation class. We used to call it Mommy-and-Me gymnastics. Parents are expected to be fully engaged and active in class.

Gymnastics classes for the 4 to 6 year old set are without parents.[/quote] She didn't say that it's a mommy and me class. And it doesn't sound like she expects all parents to participate, but only to step in when their child misbehaves.

Our daycare does "classes" regularly for this age group and it's all instructor-managed, with 1 instructor for every 6 or 7 kids.  If the kids require 1-to-1 attention for the class to work, it's probably not age-appropriate.

In the mommy-and-me classes I have been to, the "class" demands on the kids were minimal and it was much more an opportunity for moms to socialize. Nobody was circuit training. It was more like "sit next to mommy and copy mommy doing something vaguely resembling yoga" or "sit on mommy's lap and clap."[/quote]

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