Klarinet Archive - Posting 000216.txt from 2000/04

From: Matt Goff <goff@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] Studio teaching and the Band Director
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 11:22:03 -0400

On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Sam Jones wrote:

> You, nor any band director, should teach private lessons to your own
> students. It violates the teacher-student boundary. Of course, you are
> probably going to defend your position because it means $$$ for you.

When I was in junior high, I (and a few other students) received what
amounted to private lessons from our junior high band director. She did
this at the school and did not charge us. It was the only real chance I
had to take lessons on the clarinet until I graduated high school and went
away to college because there was no one else around who even offered
lessons. I'm sure you probably were not considering situations such as
the one I was in when you made the general statement quoted above
(especially since you indicate that not teaching lessons results in a loss
of money), but I thought I would point out that there are places in this
country where there are no private teachers. If a student is going to get
any individual instruction at all, it must come from his or her band
director. I know that I am grateful to my band director for taking her
own time work with students such as myself to encourage our musical
interests and skills.

Matt Goff

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