- I think that segregating has the potential to stop the 'improving' dancers from learning how to cope with poorer dancers on the social dance floor.
- I think that a poorer dancer is more likely to demonstrate/accentuate where a move can go wrong and offer opportunities for the more experienced dancer to learn from it.
- I think that it increases the likelihood of injury because the improving dancer doesn't get the chance to see/stop a potentially dangerous movement done in a practice situation - it only presents it's self in social occasions.
- I think that it reduces the beginner dancer's exposure to the feel of what it should feel like with a better dancer, so slows their development.
- I think that it broadens any existing social divide between skilled and non-skilled dancers because they are not interacting in the class environment.
- I think that it makes each side less likely to interact socially with the other because they can be identified as 'of the same level': beginners more likely to dance with beginners and learn slowly/incorrect and card holders not dancing with them for fear of injury.
- I think that people 'moving up too quickly' either sink or swim - and the taxi-lifeguards can pull them to safety and get them ready to dive in again with a bit more experience.
so yes - seriously, I have no problem with it.
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