Miss Leslie's School Of Dance

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  Maggie Laing

  Sep 10, 2020
  1.0
  Honestly? This was the absolute WORST experience with a dance school/class that I ever had. So much so that over 10 years later, here I am seeking it out to write a review. The dance instructor, miss Leslie, publicly shamed me in front of the whole class because my name wasn't on her role call (don't know why, I was registered for the class) and berated me, an 8 year old, in front of my peers to ask if my parents had paid for classes yet. Eventually she dropped it and started to teach the class, but It seemed everyone else had already taken lessons with her and I was the only beginner, something she didn't let me forget. A few classes later we we're learning a new move that I apparently couldn't immediately perform to her standards. Again, I was singled out from all the other students and made to repeat it again and again in front of everybody with the student teacher at the time (who's name I don't remember) critiquing me, while miss leslie yelled that I wasn't doing it fast enough, missed a step there, etc. I remember leaving that class in tears, spending the rest of the night practicing so nothing like that would ever happen again. Shortly after, my parents pulled me out of the class due to miss leslie's treatment and the stress it was causing me. It was such a horrific experience that I didn't even THINK about dance again until much, much later and I STILL think about how cruel the teacher was to a literal child in a beginners course for FUN (it's not like we were ever going to compete or anything). I would never go back there, nor would I consider sending my own children there if I had any. I sincerely doubt much has changed since I was a kid. Any "teacher" that singles students out to embarrass them, especially CHILDREN in a beginners course, should not be teaching.

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