Is my daughter's dance teacher ridiculous?

[NY Disney fan]

If you are ever at a studio where dancers are trained to be prima ballerinas from the age of 3 --- run! Dancers at that level have zero need to know what the Dancing World is like & attempting to cover up poor teaching methods doesn't cut it. That comes much further down the road, when they have the maturity to understand the consequences of going forward with serious training.

Thank you!

 

[goofy's friends]

All of my kids did Little Gym. You will love it and so will she! Great choice!

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

My daughter LOVES the hardcore class. But because she's a happy go lucky 3 year old she doesn't realize that the teacher gives her "warnings" all the time and wants to kill her joy of learning. My daughter thinks the ballet class is a playground and has waaay too much energy. Her teacher is a very nice lady but in my view unrealistic.

UPDATE: Next Monday is her last day at that school. I am enrolling her at a place called "The Little Gym" where the 3 year olds do 30 minutes of creative dance (ballet/tap) and 30 minutes of gymnastics. They are non-competitive and focus on fun (for little tots). When my daughter is 6 or 7 then we will re-visit the hardcore ballet classes.

Great!

I would still expect that she is taught terminology properly even in a fun class.

Hopefully the other class will be more your dd's cup of tea.

(But any "class" of any kind should never be presumed to be a "playground". But with the variety, she probably will have much more fun.)

 

[luvsJack]

Well, I don't mind if my kids get yelled at, my daughter is in cheerleading and yes sometimes the coach raises her voice and actually yells. So what, in fact one of the moms complained about it, she was pretty much laughed at by the rest of the moms.

My oldest had a baseball coach that yelled, too; but there was one difference. DS always said that Coach T was yelling "to" them not "at" them. He yelled to be heard in center field or so that the batter could hear him over the crowd or the other team and he was always teaching baseball not saying "pay attention". I didn't have a problem with that.

But yelling at a 3 year old for not paying attention is ridiculous. A dance studio is not normally so large that the teacher would need to yell to be heard. At dd's dance school, the pre-school class is taught by the owner and another teacher. One moves around with the children and touches their shoulder or something to get their attention back on task.