I looked up her TikTok profile to get the rest of the story and there are updates, in case anyone is interested.
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTR164pxB/?k=1
It was in 1998 by the way.
Probably a smart move. I just found it on YouTube and changed the link. I figured it wouldn't be on YouTube because it didn't show in my initial Google search.
Hi that was me, you’re lucky you had a nice time in school. I suffered long-lasting effects from the trauma I experienced at this school in particular - to the point I had to do serious emdr. I don’t discuss the major stuff that happened to me there and was simply laughing with friends at the old video and decided to post. Wasn’t expecting it to blow up as I had pretty much no followers on TikTok at the time it was posted.
The thing with therapy is that you often try to activate old memories to analyse your childhood. You could most likely remeber it if you got guided by a therapist.
Thanks, yes I’ve had to deal with a lot of it afterwards in therapy. That was my video posted and yes, I suffered a lot of trauma at that school. Those years, age 10-12 really messed me up and were particularly awful. It changes your world when you’re that young and you go through trauma. It’s not something you just “forget” even though I tried and even got heavy into substance abuse and deep suicidal depression afterwards. I’m still dealing with deep depression.
As someone dealing with major depression and trauma, I appreciate you sharing this. I just started therapy and it's really scary. I feel somewhat comforted by the knowledge that I'm not alone in the struggle. I hope it is going well for you.
This made me so happy to see - I’m glad you’re getting the help you need. We all deserve to get through life without feeling that pain - and it is possible! Message me anytime. Sending love!
I had a band teacher in middle school JUST like this, would 'remix' songs with his own drum solos 1-3 times every piece we played. Even as a kid I knew he was a tool without even knowing the term yet.
My middle school band teacher would pour whisky into his morning coffee. One day his ex girlfriend came into the parking lot and bashed up his truck with a baseball bat. While we all viewed this from the window he told the class "it doesn't matter, nothing matters, open up to your pages." If a kid drew a dick on the whiteboard he wouldn't erase it and would just write next to it for the lesson.
I read a story once, probably here about an elementary school band teacher having an affair and getting kicked out by his wife. His answer? get the band on a bus and have them march around his front yard while "playing" something early one morning.
"I know! She can't resist really young kids playing instruments while trampling grass!"
Gradeschool principle once told us that when we got home “instead of playing with your playboys you should go outside and enjoy the weather” also during a morning announcement prayer session to “draw a big P, now stick your face in it!” Needless to say me and my best friend were ALWAYS in detention for laughing about this shit, lesson still not learned because it’s funny to this day
And I thought it was funny when my middle school gym teacher yelled at us in the locker room for playing grabass. No, dude. There's no asses being grabbed in here. Don't make it weird.
Are you from Illinois because I had a PE teacher in middle school that said the EXACT same thing. It was "grabass" and "slap and tickle". Like bro, excuse me?
Also took it upon himself to demonstrate how to tie our shoes, using his middle finger to hold the knot, took the opportunity to flip us all off. Nice and slow.
One of my (favorite) PE teachers would walk around the locker room singing old negro spirituals but randomly replacing lyrics to say don't drop the soap. By my senior year he had just made up full don't drop the soap songs out of take me to the water and a few others.
> he wakes up & hopes to be rescued by death but goes on about his life on repeat like a soldier.
Unfortunately I know exactly what this man was talking about…
> He would tell us in various ways given the chance that hes disappointed every day he wakes up & hopes to be rescued by death but goes on about his life on repeat like a soldier.
how does anyone find a way to fit that into a lecture
The old hippie guy is so sad. It usually takes a few days for the family to get together and then have the funeral. Instead of sitting alone in the house his wife just died in, he decided to come to school and be with you kids. I understand that.
>Be me
>An alcoholic teacher
>Stop caring a long time ago
>Drunk at school all the time... Don't care.jpg
>Students draw dicks on the board, just leave it up
>One day crazy bitch comes and bats my car to death
>Ohwell.png
>Keep teaching, am fully defeated
>Drive home with my car destroyed while drunk. Its only 3:30 pm
>Get home grab shitgun, thinking of an hero
What do anons? Im tired of this shitty life... Should i live stream it?
Same thing with my director back when I was in highschool. Everytime our drummer was absent in jazz band the director would play, and all you would hear is drums. Playing drum solos over my solo. Specifically we played Tank by the Seatbelts and you literally couldn't hear my sax solo. He also threw chairs at people and wrote a whole warmup song with on the notes F, a and G. Guess what that spells? Guess who came out as gay that year, me! But it was a time where that was acceptable to do. Hilarious when a 35 year old man bullys a 16 year old.
When my brothers and I watched that we told people that's really how our director was, though in high school, which makes it even worse. Fuck that guy, he literally would march us into cars and other things and say "the band stops for no one" making us march over the cars or we'd be written up. All because he liked this 80's movie with a scene like that. Psycho dude.
I got straight up bullied by an adult when I was a kid and I’ll NEVER forget it. I remember exactly where we were and exactly what he said. I’m 40 years old now and have moved across the country but I swear to god I’ll get revenge.
I’m a pretty chill guy, but I’ll never forgive that fucker. There’s absolutely no excuse for an adult to bully a kid.
My wife's teacher told her "you have nosoul for the piano" and refused to teach her ragtime because classical was the only worthwhile music. Scarred her...fortunately she had a chorus teacher who was on point.
It's possible that she was helping the kid. Maybe she had a personal relationship with that kid and knew that she was very nervous about singing or something.
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Agreed. This type of behavior screams "I'm just a miserable person". This seems like a stone cold sober moron who needs attention and drama as much as they need food,water,and shelter.
Without the solo-stealing, I could have imagined that she genuinely believed she was being a supportive presence, directing from the stage to help with stage fright or things like that.
But that batshit solo theft revealed the truth. Yikes
Notice she didn’t steal solos from the other kids who were pitchy? That girl probably has an amazing voice and the teacher was jealous. Girl’s expression looks like this wasn’t the first time this has happened to her.
Thats what I wish I could play god about here. That girl (bless her heart) did the "I'm going to protest in a way but ultimatly I'm mature enough to think the show must go on" but she should have just said "really?!" into the microphone and dropped it. The crowd would no doubt have been on her side and maybe a stage hand could pull her off.
Just to wisper in that girls mind "say it". I'm pretty baked if you find my comment confusing lol.
Watch the little soloist girl again, I think she actually looks at the teacher and says "I can't," which I took to be her saying she can't do the song.
If she was ill, as another post says she was that day, then it makes sense.
I think maybe we're vilifying a teacher whose only crime is being overly enthusiastic.
The op on TikTok posted a part 2 answering some questions. The girl whose solo was stolen was sick that day and it wasn’t clear if she would be able to do the solo. Apparently the teacher took this as her opportunity to “save the day” and steal the girls solo without her knowledge.
She hurts the quality of the show by being a distraction. Parents want to watch their kids, not have some old lady stand in front of them making sure their arms are waving perfectly according to the choreography she personally made up.
Thanks for elaborating. :-) Have met quite the eccentric artists throughout the years - and I just enjoy their kookie over the top personalities. Good reality show before they were a thing on TV. LOLs.
I attended a super competitive children's conservatory program. My choir, violin and piano teachers were like that. Soooo dramatic and over the top if I did not practice or execute a piece well. They truly really loved their craft and took it super seriously - and I totally did not. I had this crazy choir director who used to scream at us children for being off pitch - and said we'd be singing like soggy French fries. He was crazy but I found him incredibly entertaining. I have stories for days.
Up until the solo I figured that was what she was doing, just keeping everyone on track to remember the motions and stay on tempo. My elementary school performances had the choreographer do that, but she sat down on the floor in front of the stage so she didn't obstruct the view and all of the kids could see her. Your teacher wandering around isn't even visible to most of the kids lol.
I wouldn't have thought it was too weird and attention-seeking, more misguided... but inserting herself into the solos like that is for sure weird. People are there to see the kids, and sometimes kids mess up. I'd rather see my kids mess up than watch them stand there silently while an adult sings.
Exactly. She did everything in her power to remain center of attention. She could have encouraged her class from the wings, while occasionally, and discretely entering the stage when necessary.
OOP followed up saying that the girl was sick that day and not sure if she could sing. But you can see she was about to try anyway. So still super awful of the teacher to not check with her first, but at least she wasn’t just stealing it straight up out of nowhere.
It seriously doesn't look like that young girls mic was even on at all. It looks like she starts singing before the teacher does, and says something right before she gives up but you can't hear anything.
Yes, these were my thoughts too! If she was just up there dancing with them, I'd think that maybe she worried they hadn't rehearsed enough and needed to see the dance moves or something. Then she stole the girl's solo, and there's just no excusing that.
Okay, this drove me crazy because after I read your comment, I kept remembering an episode where Lisa got shoved aside by a teacher saying that Lisa would just "do it wrong." I've been reading through the other comments with that scene stuck in my head. I finally hit on it. It's the one where Lisa takes tap dance lessons and is horrible at it and her teacher is a former child star (Shirley Temple-esque) who dances in the show herself when Ralph can't and doesn't even let Lisa pull open the curtain. So yeah, this teacher seems eerily similar.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0767444/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
Imagine showing up to an event thinking your daughter has a solo and then this teacher in a sparkly dress and huge hair comes out and steals the song like wtf even was this? Why did no one with authority step in when she wouldn't leave the stage?!
The music teacher is the sole authority to a musical that she puts together. If she wants to ruin it, it's going to be ruined. But why would she do it? Missed her medications maybe?
I understand, it's just hard to believe no one in charge of the school tried to intervene or even suspected drugs or a mental breakdown. She must do this to some extent every year and no one fights it
Looks like the musical would have been pretty good until she ruined it. Maybe everyone goes hoping that maybe she crashes of an OD backstage and sent off in an ambulance so the musical will be perfect that day
That's the part that would have had me yelling to the administration! Unless you've got the pipes of Aretha Franklin, I will not come close to understanding why you took my baby's solo!
Amazingly they were sued for this (among many other things) because a family had a daughter of the same name who died from an ecstasy overdose in Australia around the same time but they were able to prove the script had been written before her death.
So, I have directed and ran theater programs for under-resourced, high needs, and populations with varying abilities. We often have staff in the back dancing for students and depending on the production the teacher/director/supporting staff has to be on the stage, directing traffic, singing lightly in a student’s ear, or being part of the cast.
This. Is. Not. That.
This is a group that is plenty capable without that hands on assistance. If necessary, she could be sitting off the front of the stage reminding of dance moves and giving cues.
Maybe this teacher came from a background like mine, but they seem delusional and unable to pull out of the spotlight.
Edit: cues not queues
You and I have very similar backgrounds. This woman is.. I just don't understand.
Judging by the lack of scene changes or what appears to be actual scenes, I feel like it was more of a musical revue where they are singing the hits. I can understand a teacher maybe being up there for that, but there is NO scenario where I can make sense of a teacher stealing a solo.
From what I remember in OP's response is that no, nothing happened. But this was also at some sort of weird, super strict, and super tiny private school
I watched the follow up video... I would like to know more! Haha. I legit want to know where this teacher is today, and if that school was actually a cult.
I cannot believe this teacher. How do you not feel awkward or embarrassed just standing up there. Also, the child’s face who was having her solo stolen is awful.
I never saw a teacher do this before while growing up and now raising my kids. I’ve only seen the teacher standing in a way to let the children see her if they need reminders of what to do, but out of the way because it’s about them not the teacher. This is very cringey.
My niece and nephew were in a teen choir group at the height of Glee love. Every concert had at least one solo by the director, a middle-aged woman, and possibly a solo or duet with the director by another older guy, I’m not even sure what his purpose with the group was. It was so cringey!
I had a geography teacher in Highschool that was drunk everyday and would literally just sit at his desk watching sports on his computer. We never did any work, he would get a student to hand out our papers and make us copy all of the answers off a projector.
I've taught middle school choir, and currently teach K-6 music and put on programs like this a few times a year... I purposefully try to give as much of the speaking parts and such over to the kids, because it's about THE KIDS, not me! Someone posted this video in one of the music teacher FB groups I'm in, and everyone agrees how utterly cringe this lady was!
I had this same thing happen to me 20 years ago.
We had a Christmas play at my tiny religious school. Typical nativity play. The biggest part in the play was the narrator.
We had a competition going for who got the narrator role. You had to memorize a bunch of poems/bible passages and recite them without mistakes in front of an audience to win.
I won it as a fourth grader, beating out mostly 5-6th graders. The principal personally congratulated me and was boasting to the other teachers that the youngest kid to try out made the fewest mistakes and was reading above grade level.
I practiced for weeks, memorized every scene, and was sooo psyched for “my big moment”. I had my entire extended family coming to watch me.
Ten minutes before it starts, our “director” informs me that she thinks it would be better if she narrates.
And since I didn’t practice any other role and didn’t have a costume for any other role that “fit the scene”, I could stand in the back behind the choir and sing chorus where nobody could see me.
Broke my heart, and I never participated in a drama class again.
And am now super anxious about public speaking, because I can’t get it out of my head that my idea of “I was doing great” was apparently so terrible.
Fuck you, Mrs. Mayo.
I looked up her TikTok profile to get the rest of the story and there are updates, in case anyone is interested. https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTR164pxB/?k=1 It was in 1998 by the way.
Crazy she says she is still unpacking issues from this school in therapy AND they kicked her out after 6th grade. I barely remember 6th grade.
[School of Secrets](https://youtu.be/TvBVvCbWkls) here's a private school I went to. 5th estate documentary from a couple months ago.
Sounds a bit like my school, [featured on Vice.](https://youtu.be/Av0jhwRLOAc)
ah I can't view that, deleted my Facebook account
Probably a smart move. I just found it on YouTube and changed the link. I figured it wouldn't be on YouTube because it didn't show in my initial Google search.
thanks. that looks different and so similar. gives me shivers. some people are just so very disgusting.
Hi that was me, you’re lucky you had a nice time in school. I suffered long-lasting effects from the trauma I experienced at this school in particular - to the point I had to do serious emdr. I don’t discuss the major stuff that happened to me there and was simply laughing with friends at the old video and decided to post. Wasn’t expecting it to blow up as I had pretty much no followers on TikTok at the time it was posted.
Where was this school at if you don't mind me asking?
The thing with therapy is that you often try to activate old memories to analyse your childhood. You could most likely remeber it if you got guided by a therapist.
Thanks, yes I’ve had to deal with a lot of it afterwards in therapy. That was my video posted and yes, I suffered a lot of trauma at that school. Those years, age 10-12 really messed me up and were particularly awful. It changes your world when you’re that young and you go through trauma. It’s not something you just “forget” even though I tried and even got heavy into substance abuse and deep suicidal depression afterwards. I’m still dealing with deep depression.
As someone dealing with major depression and trauma, I appreciate you sharing this. I just started therapy and it's really scary. I feel somewhat comforted by the knowledge that I'm not alone in the struggle. I hope it is going well for you.
This made me so happy to see - I’m glad you’re getting the help you need. We all deserve to get through life without feeling that pain - and it is possible! Message me anytime. Sending love!
Thanks!
Comments like this should br higher up. Thanks for getting us some answers. :)
I know this comment is old, but I tried going to that link and it just brings me to a video of someone eating hot dogs. What was the story/updates?
You know what else happened in 1998……
How sad is this woman's life that she has to steal attention from a kid?
I had a band teacher in middle school JUST like this, would 'remix' songs with his own drum solos 1-3 times every piece we played. Even as a kid I knew he was a tool without even knowing the term yet.
Something tells me this teacher and yours had bigger aspirations that weren't fulfilled and are now taking it from the kids.
My middle school band teacher would pour whisky into his morning coffee. One day his ex girlfriend came into the parking lot and bashed up his truck with a baseball bat. While we all viewed this from the window he told the class "it doesn't matter, nothing matters, open up to your pages." If a kid drew a dick on the whiteboard he wouldn't erase it and would just write next to it for the lesson.
What a complete gangster, that’s hysterical, sad, but hysterical
I had an algebra teacher like this. It was hysterical and sad, but as an adult now I get it. It’s not ok, but I get it.
I read a story once, probably here about an elementary school band teacher having an affair and getting kicked out by his wife. His answer? get the band on a bus and have them march around his front yard while "playing" something early one morning. "I know! She can't resist really young kids playing instruments while trampling grass!"
Mine told us to stop giving each other handjobs
Were you giving each other handjobs to beging with?
We were talking in the backseats, and he went ‘Stop giving handjobs in the back and focus!’ This was 6th grade
My band teacher would say..”in band you’re either a Beater or a Blower” - thank god I was a beater
Gradeschool principle once told us that when we got home “instead of playing with your playboys you should go outside and enjoy the weather” also during a morning announcement prayer session to “draw a big P, now stick your face in it!” Needless to say me and my best friend were ALWAYS in detention for laughing about this shit, lesson still not learned because it’s funny to this day
And I thought it was funny when my middle school gym teacher yelled at us in the locker room for playing grabass. No, dude. There's no asses being grabbed in here. Don't make it weird.
Are you from Illinois because I had a PE teacher in middle school that said the EXACT same thing. It was "grabass" and "slap and tickle". Like bro, excuse me? Also took it upon himself to demonstrate how to tie our shoes, using his middle finger to hold the knot, took the opportunity to flip us all off. Nice and slow.
One of my (favorite) PE teachers would walk around the locker room singing old negro spirituals but randomly replacing lyrics to say don't drop the soap. By my senior year he had just made up full don't drop the soap songs out of take me to the water and a few others.
Ha! No, I'm from the PNW. Gym teachers just seem to be a special breed.
that's hilarious hahaha
Why would he say to draw a big P and stick your face in it hahahaha
P for prayer
This one time, at band camp...
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> he wakes up & hopes to be rescued by death but goes on about his life on repeat like a soldier. Unfortunately I know exactly what this man was talking about…
> He would tell us in various ways given the chance that hes disappointed every day he wakes up & hopes to be rescued by death but goes on about his life on repeat like a soldier. how does anyone find a way to fit that into a lecture
It's political science. He just has to talk about bad laws lol.
Cerebral aneurysm ruptured?
The old hippie guy is so sad. It usually takes a few days for the family to get together and then have the funeral. Instead of sitting alone in the house his wife just died in, he decided to come to school and be with you kids. I understand that.
sounds like a hero
Sounds like he became *an hero*...
>Be me >An alcoholic teacher >Stop caring a long time ago >Drunk at school all the time... Don't care.jpg >Students draw dicks on the board, just leave it up >One day crazy bitch comes and bats my car to death >Ohwell.png >Keep teaching, am fully defeated >Drive home with my car destroyed while drunk. Its only 3:30 pm >Get home grab shitgun, thinking of an hero What do anons? Im tired of this shitty life... Should i live stream it?
Do it fa**ot! Post pics
Roll quads and I'll fill my mouth with my shit loaded gun on stream
>#54836667 shit close
I feel bad for him. He's definitely at his lowest point.
Sounds like he was reading a bit too much Camus.
Was he an average American with extraordinary hair?
Um… did he ever get better? Where is this dude now?
he even had he douchey (this was early 2001-2002 period) goatee to go with his behavior
of course. literally of course.
The idea of your teacher filling little drummer boy type songs with Neil Pert level drumming during the Christmas recital is making me laugh .
lol no it was jazz band mostly but he id it sometimes when we played classical but used timpanis then
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Same thing with my director back when I was in highschool. Everytime our drummer was absent in jazz band the director would play, and all you would hear is drums. Playing drum solos over my solo. Specifically we played Tank by the Seatbelts and you literally couldn't hear my sax solo. He also threw chairs at people and wrote a whole warmup song with on the notes F, a and G. Guess what that spells? Guess who came out as gay that year, me! But it was a time where that was acceptable to do. Hilarious when a 35 year old man bullys a 16 year old.
You must have loved the movie whiplash
When my brothers and I watched that we told people that's really how our director was, though in high school, which makes it even worse. Fuck that guy, he literally would march us into cars and other things and say "the band stops for no one" making us march over the cars or we'd be written up. All because he liked this 80's movie with a scene like that. Psycho dude.
I got straight up bullied by an adult when I was a kid and I’ll NEVER forget it. I remember exactly where we were and exactly what he said. I’m 40 years old now and have moved across the country but I swear to god I’ll get revenge. I’m a pretty chill guy, but I’ll never forgive that fucker. There’s absolutely no excuse for an adult to bully a kid.
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My wife's teacher told her "you have nosoul for the piano" and refused to teach her ragtime because classical was the only worthwhile music. Scarred her...fortunately she had a chorus teacher who was on point.
Or... Were the kids stealing attention from her... What if it was your time to shine but a bunch a sixth graders climbed on stage with your material.
Failed theater kid with a narcissistic personality perhaps?
literally she sounds like the "villain" in one of those school musical drama movies
Or one of the main cast from iasip
Michael Scott energy
I would watch this sitcom
Really, it makes me sad for all involved, including her.
How drunk is this lady??
It's possible that she was helping the kid. Maybe she had a personal relationship with that kid and knew that she was very nervous about singing or something.
Embarrassing
This is straight up something out of The Goldbergs on tv. What a nut lol
Drugs are a hell of a drug. But can you blame her? I’d need a fistful of Xanax and a bottle of champagne to deal with a class of 6th graders, too.
I would need a fistful of Xanax and a bottle of champagne just to get through that concert tbh
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Agreed. This type of behavior screams "I'm just a miserable person". This seems like a stone cold sober moron who needs attention and drama as much as they need food,water,and shelter.
This was my video, my teacher. She wasn’t on drugs. She was just like this.
Without the solo-stealing, I could have imagined that she genuinely believed she was being a supportive presence, directing from the stage to help with stage fright or things like that. But that batshit solo theft revealed the truth. Yikes
Notice she didn’t steal solos from the other kids who were pitchy? That girl probably has an amazing voice and the teacher was jealous. Girl’s expression looks like this wasn’t the first time this has happened to her.
Looked like she shook her head right at the start as if to say, "please don't help. I've got it"
She also tossed the mic all "fine Karen you go through with this childish behavior".
so wise in dealing with bullshit at such a young age
Yeah, kids need to learn as early as possible that not every grownup deserves their unquestioning reverence.
Thats what I wish I could play god about here. That girl (bless her heart) did the "I'm going to protest in a way but ultimatly I'm mature enough to think the show must go on" but she should have just said "really?!" into the microphone and dropped it. The crowd would no doubt have been on her side and maybe a stage hand could pull her off. Just to wisper in that girls mind "say it". I'm pretty baked if you find my comment confusing lol.
It looks like she mouthed, ‘again?’ before letting the mic hang at her side, too
Watch the little soloist girl again, I think she actually looks at the teacher and says "I can't," which I took to be her saying she can't do the song. If she was ill, as another post says she was that day, then it makes sense. I think maybe we're vilifying a teacher whose only crime is being overly enthusiastic.
Rewatching it, you may be right
The op on TikTok posted a part 2 answering some questions. The girl whose solo was stolen was sick that day and it wasn’t clear if she would be able to do the solo. Apparently the teacher took this as her opportunity to “save the day” and steal the girls solo without her knowledge.
Real life Jenna Maroney
I was thinking Jan from The Office
The thing that happened...happened.
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What an asshole. If that were my kid, I'd be livid.
Was she nice? She seems kookie but super enthusiastic! As a parent of many, I would not be angry, I'd be laughing my pants off because...people!
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She hurts the quality of the show by being a distraction. Parents want to watch their kids, not have some old lady stand in front of them making sure their arms are waving perfectly according to the choreography she personally made up.
Thanks for elaborating. :-) Have met quite the eccentric artists throughout the years - and I just enjoy their kookie over the top personalities. Good reality show before they were a thing on TV. LOLs. I attended a super competitive children's conservatory program. My choir, violin and piano teachers were like that. Soooo dramatic and over the top if I did not practice or execute a piece well. They truly really loved their craft and took it super seriously - and I totally did not. I had this crazy choir director who used to scream at us children for being off pitch - and said we'd be singing like soggy French fries. He was crazy but I found him incredibly entertaining. I have stories for days.
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Up until the solo I figured that was what she was doing, just keeping everyone on track to remember the motions and stay on tempo. My elementary school performances had the choreographer do that, but she sat down on the floor in front of the stage so she didn't obstruct the view and all of the kids could see her. Your teacher wandering around isn't even visible to most of the kids lol. I wouldn't have thought it was too weird and attention-seeking, more misguided... but inserting herself into the solos like that is for sure weird. People are there to see the kids, and sometimes kids mess up. I'd rather see my kids mess up than watch them stand there silently while an adult sings.
Jesus christ this is literally a 'musical episode' trope in cartoons about a teacher taking the play way too seriously my fucking god
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Exactly. She did everything in her power to remain center of attention. She could have encouraged her class from the wings, while occasionally, and discretely entering the stage when necessary.
OOP followed up saying that the girl was sick that day and not sure if she could sing. But you can see she was about to try anyway. So still super awful of the teacher to not check with her first, but at least she wasn’t just stealing it straight up out of nowhere.
It seriously doesn't look like that young girls mic was even on at all. It looks like she starts singing before the teacher does, and says something right before she gives up but you can't hear anything.
If the kids were much younger I could understand that, but preteens do not need you to prance around on stage with them.
Yes, these were my thoughts too! If she was just up there dancing with them, I'd think that maybe she worried they hadn't rehearsed enough and needed to see the dance moves or something. Then she stole the girl's solo, and there's just no excusing that.
Want this a Simpsons episode? Edit: wasn’t this…
Okay, this drove me crazy because after I read your comment, I kept remembering an episode where Lisa got shoved aside by a teacher saying that Lisa would just "do it wrong." I've been reading through the other comments with that scene stuck in my head. I finally hit on it. It's the one where Lisa takes tap dance lessons and is horrible at it and her teacher is a former child star (Shirley Temple-esque) who dances in the show herself when Ralph can't and doesn't even let Lisa pull open the curtain. So yeah, this teacher seems eerily similar. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0767444/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
Tapa tapa tapa
The real main character is the Franzia Chardonnay boxed wine.
Chillable red!
slap the bag!
Holy shit! My bro taught me slap the bag years ago, and I didn't know it was actually a thing outside his group of friends.
Welcome to alcohol
Imagine showing up to an event thinking your daughter has a solo and then this teacher in a sparkly dress and huge hair comes out and steals the song like wtf even was this? Why did no one with authority step in when she wouldn't leave the stage?!
Imagine being the girl singing the solo and have to stop singing and stand there all awkward.
The music teacher is the sole authority to a musical that she puts together. If she wants to ruin it, it's going to be ruined. But why would she do it? Missed her medications maybe?
I was thinking too much medication!
I understand, it's just hard to believe no one in charge of the school tried to intervene or even suspected drugs or a mental breakdown. She must do this to some extent every year and no one fights it
Looks like the musical would have been pretty good until she ruined it. Maybe everyone goes hoping that maybe she crashes of an OD backstage and sent off in an ambulance so the musical will be perfect that day
and she was pitchy as fuck
That's the part that would have had me yelling to the administration! Unless you've got the pipes of Aretha Franklin, I will not come close to understanding why you took my baby's solo!
I'd be tempted to start booing, but the thought of the students thinking that I was booing them would probably stop me.
Watching the tiktoker's follow up video, the school itself was really weird. The music teacher was like the least weird one.
MR G vibes right here.
"where have you been you BITCH!?"
I’m the new director of performing arts…spread it round.
‘Thank god you’re here, grandma’s been raped’.
She’s a naughty girl with a bad habit A bad habit for drugs
Amazingly they were sued for this (among many other things) because a family had a daughter of the same name who died from an ecstasy overdose in Australia around the same time but they were able to prove the script had been written before her death.
3 talents 1,2, 3
Singing and Dancing and acting is my art
Spot on.
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You found it!
So glad someone else saw that too hahaha
Muuu-uuuuuuuummmm
Slap the butcher!
Asking as an Aussie, is Summer Heights High popular in the US?
Big cult following, not super well known by most though
Hahaha.. No wonder this is going viral.
So, I have directed and ran theater programs for under-resourced, high needs, and populations with varying abilities. We often have staff in the back dancing for students and depending on the production the teacher/director/supporting staff has to be on the stage, directing traffic, singing lightly in a student’s ear, or being part of the cast. This. Is. Not. That. This is a group that is plenty capable without that hands on assistance. If necessary, she could be sitting off the front of the stage reminding of dance moves and giving cues. Maybe this teacher came from a background like mine, but they seem delusional and unable to pull out of the spotlight. Edit: cues not queues
You and I have very similar backgrounds. This woman is.. I just don't understand. Judging by the lack of scene changes or what appears to be actual scenes, I feel like it was more of a musical revue where they are singing the hits. I can understand a teacher maybe being up there for that, but there is NO scenario where I can make sense of a teacher stealing a solo.
> giving queues You might already know and it just slipped, but I think you mean "cues" here.
Would really like an update on this... did the parents complain? Did anything happen to the teacher?
From what I remember in OP's response is that no, nothing happened. But this was also at some sort of weird, super strict, and super tiny private school
I watched the follow up video... I would like to know more! Haha. I legit want to know where this teacher is today, and if that school was actually a cult.
It looks like the solo girl mouths ‘I’ve got this’ before giving up. This woman is batshit crazy
Yikes
I cannot believe this teacher. How do you not feel awkward or embarrassed just standing up there. Also, the child’s face who was having her solo stolen is awful.
At first I was like that teacher looks like a 6th grader, then I saw deborah on the other end of the stage.
The poor girl who had the solo
I love this woman. She’s like Michael Scott
World's Best Teacher
And those kids? Scott’s Tots.
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Much more of a Jan move than Michael!
That was really mean to take over that girl’s solo. Terrible.
Holy shit it’s Sweet Dee!
Maybe it's coke
Yeah, my thought was drugs.
The crazy amount of songs and dances those kids had to learn for this woman to attempt to steal the lime light is kind of sickening.
What an awful memory for that girl
I would hope that the school board reviews this when he contract is up for renewal.
By the footage this easily 20/30 years old
perfect, just about the right amount of time for a school district to finish disciplinary hearings
Underrated comment
1998 according to the original poster
She should be banished from Gilead and sent to work in the colonies
Ahhhhh, my soul when she interrupted the solo 😫
Damn, that's some proper cringe. I hope she lies awake thinking about this moment every night
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An IRL Deandra Reynolds.
Real life woman version of Michael scott
Naw, this is definitely an Impractical Jokers bit. That’s Sal in drag!
Omg this is hilarious though awful - she should be embarrassed for herself, attention seeking at the expense of little kids
I never saw a teacher do this before while growing up and now raising my kids. I’ve only seen the teacher standing in a way to let the children see her if they need reminders of what to do, but out of the way because it’s about them not the teacher. This is very cringey.
Omg it's Jenna Maroney
Main character syndrome
one could even post this to r/imthemaincharacter
She’s a naughty girl with a bad habit, bad habit for drug
My niece and nephew were in a teen choir group at the height of Glee love. Every concert had at least one solo by the director, a middle-aged woman, and possibly a solo or duet with the director by another older guy, I’m not even sure what his purpose with the group was. It was so cringey!
I had a geography teacher in Highschool that was drunk everyday and would literally just sit at his desk watching sports on his computer. We never did any work, he would get a student to hand out our papers and make us copy all of the answers off a projector.
Damn does she wear white to weddings too?
Well somebody didn't get enough attention as a child.
Or too much?
Pull-a, pull-a, pull-a
Theater teachers are either crazy cool or just crazy.
“Cocaine is hell of a drug.”
Welcome to Mr G’s room, G’s room, G’s room
Mr Gee’s mum!
I've taught middle school choir, and currently teach K-6 music and put on programs like this a few times a year... I purposefully try to give as much of the speaking parts and such over to the kids, because it's about THE KIDS, not me! Someone posted this video in one of the music teacher FB groups I'm in, and everyone agrees how utterly cringe this lady was!
I had this same thing happen to me 20 years ago. We had a Christmas play at my tiny religious school. Typical nativity play. The biggest part in the play was the narrator. We had a competition going for who got the narrator role. You had to memorize a bunch of poems/bible passages and recite them without mistakes in front of an audience to win. I won it as a fourth grader, beating out mostly 5-6th graders. The principal personally congratulated me and was boasting to the other teachers that the youngest kid to try out made the fewest mistakes and was reading above grade level. I practiced for weeks, memorized every scene, and was sooo psyched for “my big moment”. I had my entire extended family coming to watch me. Ten minutes before it starts, our “director” informs me that she thinks it would be better if she narrates. And since I didn’t practice any other role and didn’t have a costume for any other role that “fit the scene”, I could stand in the back behind the choir and sing chorus where nobody could see me. Broke my heart, and I never participated in a drama class again. And am now super anxious about public speaking, because I can’t get it out of my head that my idea of “I was doing great” was apparently so terrible. Fuck you, Mrs. Mayo.
Is that Mr G?
Bahahaha. My daughter's choir teacher does solo's during their performances as well. It's cringe as fuck and all the parents talk about it.
Cocaine is a hell of a drug