Klarinet Archive - Posting 000229.txt from 2000/04

From: SDSCHWAEG@-----.com
Subj: Re: [kl] Studio teaching and the Band Director
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 17:20:18 -0400

Sam Jones makes some good points about middle school and high school students
being impressionable, and possibly feeling obligated to take lessons from
their band director. I'd like to point out, though, that I am NOT a band
director - my husband is. I teach some of his students, and not others. I
teach students from other schools as well. He teaches some of his students,
but not others. He also has students from other schools. We do not recruit
them at school - our referrals DO come from local music stores, or,
sometimes, from other band directors. Do his students feel pressured to
study with us? Maybe, I don't know. The fact is, they all CAN'T study with
us - we don't have room. We accept students in the order they contact us -
and if that means accepting another director's student over one of his, so be
it. We are among the better teachers in town, though, so we're certainly not
going to refuse to teach his students. (And in a small market, there simply
may not be much choice anyway.) Neither of us has EVER attempted to recruit
a student away from another teacher. We're just happy they're studying at
all!
Susan Schwaegler

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