As much as a teacher espouses they are impartial towards their former dancers, there are some (not all) teachers who have neither the required maturity or grace to move on. When a dancer transfers schools the root cause is mostly due to the teacher. You can't tell me that a former teacher acting as an adjudicator will consciously be unprejudiced when they have been heard stating "No one improves when they leave me" - they are acutely aware of their former dancers’ weaknesses and will more than likely focus on them, and not the actual dancing as a whole (see more inside). -- Australian Irish Dance Message Board

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Date Posted: Fri, Apr 09 2021, 17:38:38"
Author: Sceptical
Subject: As much as a teacher espouses they are impartial towards their former dancers, there are some (not all) teachers who have neither the required maturity or grace to move on. When a dancer transfers schools the root cause is mostly due to the teacher. You can't tell me that a former teacher acting as an adjudicator will consciously be unprejudiced when they have been heard stating "No one improves when they leave me" - they are acutely aware of their former dancers’ weaknesses and will more than likely focus on them, and not the actual dancing as a whole (see more inside).
In reply to: Siting on the fence 's message, "Adjudicators" on Fri, Apr 02 2021, 14:53:43"

Irish dancing cannot be judged subjectively – it all comes down to an adjudicator’s preferences, which is really an unconscious bias. If there is a “history” between the adjudicator and the dancer then the bias will clearly manifest, despite the adjudicator feigning “disappointment” that they should be accused of such a thing. I’ve even heard someone say that when a “fat” (their word, not mine) dancer came on stage, they immediately placed them low and “pretended” they were watching and writing feedback, when in actual fact they were assessing their notes for the other dancers and deciding how to place them!

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Ooops - I meant Irish Dancing cannot be judged OBJECTIVELY in the “see more inside”. It is completely subjective, therefore bias definitely comes into play (NT) -- Sceptical, Fri, Apr 09 2021, 21:16:20"
yes totally agree - so many guidelines for dancers and parents...what about for these sorts of behaviours and attitudes? (NT) -- Post COVID I believe many choose not to tolerate these attitudes anymore, Sun, Apr 11 2021, 22:22:30"

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