Klarinet Archive - Posting 000571.txt from 1999/03

From: Richard Bush <rbushidioglot@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: Studio teaching Horrors
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 11:41:07 -0500

Dear Peter,

If I recall correctly, I was possibly the first person to suggest that
teachers need to be most discrete about "touching." There are too many
horror stories about inappropriate touching, teachers being
unprofessional in their conduct and, on the other side of the coin,
students falsely accusing teachers for innocent and well meaning
teaching methods.

I've played the clarinet for forty-eight years and taught privately for
forty-one of those years. Many in this news group either take private
lessons, teach private lessons, take music classes in public schools or
universities or teach in pubic schools or universities. Teaching or
being a student is, indeed, a very big part of clarinet playing. Such
discussions belong here as much as any possible place, and Jennifer is
not out of line nor off topic to make such postings.

We do not live in a vacuum nor live in caves by ourselves. Social
interaction, professional interaction and educational interaction are
all a part of playing the clarinet or any instrument.

This is not my two cents worth, but my hundred dollar bill opinion!

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