Klarinet Archive - Posting 000222.txt from 2004/02

From: Tony Pay <tony.p@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] How would you reply to this student?
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2004 06:40:48 -0500

In message <001401c3f245$481e5b00$1202a8c0@DELL> you wrote:

> This student is 24 years old - An Adult beginner who played for 2
> years in High School and started up again this past Sept.
>
> -----------------------------------
> Dave,
>
> I have to cancel I partied too much. plus I have not practiced a lot.
> Let me know that you received this.
> Sorry once again.
> Best Regards,
>
> Dimitrios

My reply would very much depend on what else I knew about the student.
(None of us has your knowledge, after all.)

It does strike me that many of the people who *have* responded show quite a
lot of anger towards your student on the very little evidence above. Perhaps
the mechanism is, they see that you're being a bit stiff with him in your
own reply, and anyway think of you as quite generous; and so they incorporate
a rather negative assessment of the student's probable character into the
fact that you posted the exchange in the first place.

Then, supporting you amounts to slagging him off (and he can't see that
slagging off, so no harm done), so it's another opportunity to let off the
usual steam about 'them', and how terrible they are.

Tony
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