Klarinet Archive - Posting 000068.txt from 2006/11

From: "catkeel" <catkeel@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Disgusted, Need to Vent
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 17:58:36 -0500

I am retired on a fixed income and take sax lessons. I pay $15 per half hour
per lesson. Some months we are hard pressed to come up with the $60 to $75
depending upon 4 or 5 lesson days. Maybe they don`t want to admit they can`t
afford it so they take the easy way out and quit.

Bob

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From: "thomaswinds" <thomaswinds@-----.net>
To: "klarinetlist" <klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: Monday, November 20, 2006 5:24 PM
Subject: [kl] Disgusted, Need to Vent

>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
>
>
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