Klarinet Archive - Posting 000067.txt from 2006/11

From: "thomaswinds" <thomaswinds@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Disgusted, Need to Vent
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 17:24:36 -0500

I just want to know why, when a kid needs to "lighten up their schedule",
the parents decide to cancel lessons? You know, the thing that takes up a
half hour to an hour of their week (Not counting the practice time...but at
least that can be flexible in the schedule!)??? Instead of packing in
some forever-losing sports team that takes up every day for two hours a day
after school, which of course they can't do when they're, say, 40.....(ever
see a 40 year old field hockey player? Nope, didn't think so. Ever see
field hockey get you a college scholarship? Bahahaha....!)

I am SO tired of the parents who want their kids to quit, when the kids
don't WANT to quit. This just happened with one of my best students. Mom
(who is supposedly an artsy person) emailed me yesterday. When they get
into high school, the stuff packs on and the parents can't deal with it.
Grrrrrrrrr.

And WHY would they get rid of something the child LOVES? She even admitted
as much!!! And I know the kid is upset, she has been fighting with her mom
about it for weeks. Doesn't that tell the mother something? I have been
biding my time about emailing her back. I need to say whatever I'm going to
say right.

My roster is down from teaching three nights a week to less than two nights'
worth. I have three seniors this year. Next year (figuring there will be
more who will quit by then) I *might* have one night's worth. I am SO
tired of students quitting because their parents are pansies.

Hmmph.

Lynn