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Favouritism in my Drama teacher?
I'm going to come right out here and say that I do NOT think what she's doing is right, and need some help approaching her.
we got a new Drama teacher training this year, and as this is our GCSE course, it's become much more important than previously. And at first she seemed so sweet to everyone, and I really liked her. She was fun.
We begin our first unit, and we’re doing small pieces. Typically, one person gets the lead 'rrole' in these pieces, more lines... more stage time... etc. And for a long while, I got nothing.
I'm pretty sure everyone got a 'main' as we entered our second unit. There, it wasn't so much 'main' roles as it was presenting your individual work to the class. All of that term, I never got called. Once.
Because, I guess at one point, she'd stopped liking me. Who knows what I did, but she was looking at me funny and ignoring me when I contributed. Soon we could literally list her favourite to least favourite. I was last.
Everyone was getting multiple main roles at this point. And it was becoming obvious. She would be very dismissive with me. She spent five minutes talking to people about their holiday but when it came to me, it was a "cute", and then she moved on. When she calls me sweetie, it seems forced, but with everyone else it's genuine. And my classmates notice.
I want to know how to approach her, because I adore Drama and always wwill. But it’s hindering my progress compared to the rest of my class, whon she loves.
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I would call it favoritism if she only had one or a couple kids who were indeed favorites and the rest of class including you, left out. this instead sounds like she is transferring bad feelings she has for another person in her personal life that you remind her of.
So to be civil, don't accuse her of overlooking you or leaving you out purposely, (even tho classmates have noticed) but just bring it to her attention this way, "Teacher, are you aware that from the beginning of this class you have never called on me or given me any acting bits/lead parts so I can get experience. I'm sure you've not meant to do that but even classmates have noticed. I hope you will begin to work me in and give me the same equal opportunity as everyone else. If I remind you of someone you don't like, I am sorry for that, but I personally have done nothing to hurt you so I would appreciate you keeping that in mind and not unconsciously neglecting to include me in the future. " This is a good way to state the issue. Even though you feel she probably is aware of what she's doing and faking her niceness when she does address you, there really isn't solid enough evidence there to use that course of argument. If it doesnt improve immediately...at east, you went to her first as is proper giving her a chance to amend her ways rather than going over her head to her superiors. But the next step would be going to her boss, the principle of the school.
If you are in high school, your parents can get involved in step two. If you are college age, this is all for you to handle. Good luck with it.
You never know, she really may not have been fully aware that she is avoiding you. You may remind her of some friend or family member she lost to death and has never really gone properly through grief and dealing with it so to avoid having to reopen a wound and continue with grieving, she avoids you. People do weird things, and its not good for them or the poor person who becomes their target.
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It sounds to me that you may be making a mountain out of absolutely nothing. There probably isn't any malice or favortism here. She has a lot of students and not all of them can have leads. She may be giving leads to people who worked hard to get them or who need a confidence boost.
She might also know what your ability is and may want you to play a variety of smaller roles for now so others can shine and rotate you in later. Then again perhaps she feels you cant handle certain parts or arent at the level of peers who may be better actors.
You could tell her that you like the class but feel ignored and passed over for lead roles you feel you would be good for. However, that might piss her off. If I were you I would realize that there is no such thing as a small part. Its all important. Make yourself shine and no doubt the better roles will materialize.
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