Having eleven years of experience at other schools, Trenton shocked me. Gone was the favoritism, the in-fighting and pitting the dancers against each other. Gone was the oh-so obvious out to just make money while pretending to care about the dancers. At Trenton, they do not make girls dance late Friday and early Saturday morning. They do not dissuade dancers from homework or school events with subtle comments or rolling of eyes, suggesting that if they have any kind of life they are not truly committed. Unlike other schools, they are respectful of the dancer's time and the dancer's families time - meaning they do not run 15 or 20 minutes over on classes like other schools do. The teachers are skilled, kind and have a sense of humor too. And one of the BIGGEST things? When they say they have their dancer's safety in mind, they mean it. Before joining, they were the only school we could find that followed the masking mandates that Michigan schools followed during the last surge.