Klarinet Archive - Posting 000248.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 20:53:19 -0500

In message <5FDFDB22-5F2F-11D8-8274-000A27D9BB18@-----.net> you wrote:

> I usually have a talk (and sometimes even hand out a policy statement)
> about such things with new students. I tell them that what they're
> buying is my TIME.

Yeah, nothing like insight, or help, or whatnot. How could you guarantee
that?

> When I set that time aside, I commit to that appointed time, I plan nothing
> else in my life for that time but to teach them. For that reason I charge
> for lessons missed for all but major problems. If a blizzard is going on, I
> tell them that no lesson is worth risking life and limb...so call and we'll
> make it up some other time. Most of the time I ask for a twenty-four hour
> notice when they need to cancel. If they have a shaky reason for missing I
> will offer them a make-up time, within that week that will be at my
> convenience. If they can't make it, then I tell them that I will have to
> charge them.

So, no question about what you would write to Dave's student if he were
your student. He screwed with your time, so he pays.

> The best thing to do is take the money up front. Then, if there's a
> question, you don't end up being out and loosing the money.

Yeah, 'cause you already got it!

Money equals time.

Tony
--
_________ Tony Pay
|ony:-) 79 Southmoor Rd tony.p@-----.org
| |ay Oxford OX2 6RE http://classicalplus.gmn.com/artists
tel/fax 01865 553339

... Experience: What you get when you don't get what you want

---------------------------------------------------------------------
Klarinet is a service of Woodwind.Org, Inc. http://www.woodwind.org