Klarinet Archive - Posting 000997.txt from 1999/10

From: Tony@-----.uk (Tony Pay)
Subj: Re: [kl] re: playing the Clarinet from behind the student
Date: Sat, 30 Oct 1999 20:20:07 -0400

On Sat, 30 Oct 1999 19:13:59 -0500 (CDT), el2@-----.edu said:

> 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.

There's really a *law* against physical contact of that sort in your
country?????

Tony
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