Klarinet Archive - Posting 000996.txt from 1999/10

From: "Edwin V. Lacy" <el2@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] re: playing the Clarinet from behind the student
Date: Sat, 30 Oct 1999 20:13:59 -0400

On Sat, 30 Oct 1999, Tony Pay wrote:

> I've always found that the simplest solution -- even if you want to
> check directly whether somebody's abdominal muscles are flexed enough
> or too much when they are playing, surely the most 'dangerous' sort of
> touch that we might consider -- is to explain to the student what you
> want to do; explain why you need to ask his or her permission to do
> that; and then do it, or not, depending on the answer you get.

You can explain all you want to, but you may still find yourself
explaining to a judge and jury. You can't ask for permission to break a
law, and agreement from a student for whatever contact you may want to
make with them doesn't prevent them from deciding later that they found it
embarrassing or offensive. Any teacher today who would touch any
student's abdomen has to have rocks in the head.

Ed Lacy
el2@-----.edu

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