Your teacher was a moron. If a child loves to sing, that's enough without causing a complex. My sister had a teacher like that. My sister never sang again after she was told to just move her lips & not make a sound.Bill Medley, best known as one half of The Righteous Brothers, is my favorite. Of course I'm hard of hearing, along with being tone deaf. At the end of my 8th grade chorus the teacher said, do us both a favor and don't sign up for 9th grade chorus.