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I see a lot of non business hours just magically saying, "the lights are on, the instructors are paid"
Are you kidding yourselves?
The lights are on because the electric bill was paid. If you're training in a hot climate in the summer, AC or at the very least serious ventilation fans are adding to that cost.
Cost of the space is MASSIVE. Most people do not own the land the school is one, most schools are paying a commercial lease. Even if they own the real estate outright they need to recoup the cost of investment. If they have an arrangement with the owner of a larger gym, they are paying for the use of the space.
All of this isn't free.
Judo was cheap as dirt when I was a kid because the club fundraised like crazy and had deals to use middle school and high school gyms for our class.
We brought the mats, set em up, trained, broke em down, and loaded them back into the vans at the end of each class.
When I've trained judo at a professionally owned gym, the rates were standard for pro BJJ gyms in the area.
my point is that once you have an instructed class of regular paying students ready to go, you are not sacrificing anything to add, say, two extra poor kids who are getting tuition breaks-- it's not like your light bills are calculated by how many students you have. and whatever the indirect costs, i would argue they are far outweighed by the benefits of broadening your talent pool, adding diversity to the gym environment, just doing good for the world, etc.