How do I handle this

[Anniegoestotown]

Bit of a lurker but really need help. I also don't know if this shouldn't go in the AIBU section.

Back story is dd has for 7 years since the age of 8 been attending a performing arts class and she is quite talented. From the same PAS she has private dance lessons which are costing me a fortune but as she will be taking the first exam towards teaching the subject this summer I look on it as an investment in her future. I also pay for private singing lessons, which she is doing well in and has already had a couple of paid jobs. I am also paying for a few private drama lessons for a play she is in rehearsals for.

The show is coming up next month. Dd for the first time was given a solo in the show to show case her dance skills which again I have been paying the dance teacher to teach her the routine she has had 6 lessons and now is just going over to make it perfect. It is technically a pretty hard dance routine. Dd has been looking forward to getting on the stage on her own for a long time. She was always told she too young for a solo before. Anyway the crux of the problem is I arrived on Monday night to pick dd up and not for the first time I see another pupil in the "private" class with dd. the other pupil who has a lesson after dd is not taking part in the lesson but is still in with her, lay on the floor with her legs in the air playing on her phone. This annoyed me, but what followed made me hit the roof, it turns out that this girl has been also sitting in with dd during her private dance lesson and despite being several grades below dd the dance teacher has said it would look better if dd was accompanied during the routine and would dd teach this girl the routine during the week so she can catch up and will be joining dd in the last 3 classes I have paid for.

Dd said there is no way that this girl can do the routine let alone pick up the routine in 3 weeks but dance teacher is adamant that it is going to happen. One of my concerns is the teacher could with 3 weeks to go suddenly decide to alter the whole routine to help this other girl.

My question is how do I handle it. My points of concern is I am paying for private lessons that aren't private and dds solo dance routine which she has waited ages to do is no longer a solo.

Just an update. Was collecting dd, I did not speak with dance teacher as she was tied up with another mum and there was a queue. To see her but girl came up to me to ask if my dd could teach her the routine, offered for dd to go to her house for a sleepover. (she had already asked dd during the lesson and dd said she did not have time.)

I pointed out that dd did not have time, she does 22 hours of extra performing arts classes per week, she is in rehearsals for a play, she has a Saturday job, she is also working odd days here and there and has to allow time to catch up with day time school work she misses aswell as homework and she is studying for some GCSE's so as dd had said she did not have time. Girl looked very deflated

Only time will tell what happens next. I think with the show only weeks away I think dance teacher does not have time to teach girl routine and was hoping dd was going to pick up the reins from her.

If you haven't spoken to dance teacher at all about this and if your dd hasn't spoken to the teacher either about it then I wouldn't even mention it to the teacher now. As far as you are aware things are going ahead as previously mentioned, no need to get into a discussion about it now.