Jane Taylor was sitting in class at Niceville High School when her phone buzzed with a text from her mom. Just her name, in all caps.
“I’m thinking I got in trouble or something,” Taylor said.
She slipped out to the bathroom and called her mom back. On the other end of the line, Carissa Taylor was crying.
- “She’s like, ‘Jane, they accepted you into the program,’” Jane said. “And I just start crying.”
The program is the Joffrey Ballet School’s year-round Trainee Program in New York City — one of the most competitive pre-professional ballet training programs in the country. Jane, a 15-year-old sophomore, will head to New York this fall to begin what could be up to four years of intensive training at the school’s Manhattan facility…