We understand that it's hard to lock up tuition months ahead of time, but we feel we have to require pre-paying tuition only because the classes fill so fast, and we often have to turn people away – sometimes we turn away whole groups because a class is nearly full already. Generally, people have to plan months or even a year ahead in order to block out vacation time and make travel arrangements when fares are favorable. In consideration of everyone, we want people to know for sure when class dates are no longer available before they start juggling their schedules. Finally, we can't afford to hold classes that aren't full enough, so when people cancel and we fall below our minimum, we have to cancel the entire class and the remaining enrollees lose out, which is grossly unfair to them as they may have booked non-refundable travel already.

Our sign-up and refund policy for classes reflects these concerns. In general:
1. Full tuition is required in full to reserve a seat. You can wait until the class is closer if that's a problem for you, but there's a definite risk you won't get the dates you want the closer we get.
2. We have accidentally over-booked classes in the past, and it detracts from everyone's experience, so we make no intentional exceptions to the limits we place on numbers of students.
3. If you find you can't make the class for some reason, we encourage you to select other dates that will work for you.
4. If there's no other time you can come build your own board, we will refund tuition (minus 20%) for cancellations but only if we can refill your seat.