Klarinet Archive - Posting 000227.txt from 2004/02

From: "Rebecca Brennan" <u_cant_kill_the_rooster@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] How would you reply to this student?
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2004 10:22:05 -0500

Well, I am proud to say that I just might have more sense then someone!
Wooha! I have enough sense to go to my lesson, nomatter what, and party
after the lesson! j/k.

Anyway, is this a bad habit of your student? If so, ask why he is even
bothering with music. Does he practice? Does he have potential? Those are
questions I ask for your sake, seeing that this is your job. I agree with
the others that said that it is your time and money at stake with this, but
if this isn't a weekly problem, then I would just let it go and tell him
that there is no reason why this should be happening.

-Rebecca...excellent...not superior...therefore, deserving death...sorry
Rossini...please don't haunt me.

>From: Tony Pay <tony.p@-----.org>
>Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
>To: klarinet@-----.org
>Subject: Re: [kl] How would you reply to this student?
>Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2004 12:24:17 +0100
>
>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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