to be pissed off with my kids' dance school?

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Ok, my DD1 (7) and 2 (3) go dancing once a week. For 45 minutes, I pay £4.50 per child. We live in the Midlands.

It was announced a couple of weeks ago that classes wouldn't be held as normal on the last Saturday of term (10th Dec despite having already paid for them with no chance of refund!) Instead there would be a disco.

FastForward to the disco. It was arranged by the senior girls, so was full of club music. My DD1 spent most of it in tears. DD2 was similarly bored. There was ONE game the whole time they were there and they were served a cup of squash and a biscuit. Within less than an hour my kids had come home as they were so fed up.

AIBU to be annoyed that I paid £9 for two lessons that never happened and that in their place, was a teen disco and a cup of squash and a biscuit instead of the lesson I'd paid for? I have half a mind to write to the principal. The whole thing was made worse when DD1 went for her swimming lesson yesterday, only to find they had minimal life-guard staff on (so little that I had to sit poolside to check on DD1, who is a very new swimmer) and had just chucked a load of floats in the pool and called it a Christmas party.

AI also BU to think that if you pay for lessons in something, your kids should bloody well get them, regardless of the time of year.

UANBU
We have brilliant local DJ who runs primary aged disco parties. Lots of games and appropriate music.
Most of our dance school are little, they'd be bored witless at a teen disco.

My two would have been furious if the floats didn't appear in the last lesson.
Sometimes their teacher was mean and made them have half a swimming lesson first

Our dance school run a 3 hour party for the last class which they go to according to age. They get food and drink and various games and songs. They have a ball.

My dd was crying because she wanted the older girls to play with her as she was bored

Couldn't she have played with the girls her own age? Whatever the activity, dancing or otherwise, isn't it likely that the older girls would prefer not to have to entertain and play with the younger ones?

That apart I think YANBU for feeling that this end of term entertainment wasn't age appropriate. Maybe a polite note to the school to point this out will prompt them to think it through a bit more next year. If you don't complain they won't necessarily know.