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Emotional Abuse by Teacher

I’ve been at my university for 6 years now, on my last semester finally. I study voice and have recently come to the sickening realization that my voice professor has been controlling and cruel to the point of emotional abuse. For context for the coming information, I’m a brown PR man and she is an older white woman. From telling me that “While I am the most talented student she’s ever had, I am also the worst student she has ever had”, to discouraging me from becoming a pediatrician to study voice saying “I don’t think your brain was meant for math and science”. When COVID was at its peak, I would wear a mask around my arm so I wouldn’t forget it anywhere and she asked if the “black band on my arm was for Black Lives Matter”. She assumed that the best way to teach me would be to tell instructions at me and proceeded to do this in front of the studio while I was singing and, noticing that the other students were uncomfortable and shocked upon witnessing this, explained it away saying that “this is just how he learns”. I have my senior recital on Monday, in two days, and while I have had occasional dress rehearsals, she refused to give me any lessons for the last year. Consequentially, my use of proper technique has diminished and she harshly criticized me for it yesterday during the last dress rehearsal. So many other things have happened like this, but I’m very ready to be done, to have my voice be my own again in two days.
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I think you should continue to work toward your own goals and not take her advice.

If she asks about the mask again, ask HER, "Don't you think ALL lives matter?"