Klarinet Archive - Posting 000070.txt from 2006/11

From: Laurence Beckhardt <lbeckhardt@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Disgusted, Need to Vent
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 19:07:43 -0500

Of course you're right, but you can't get between a
kid and her parents. Why don't you give her some
advise about practicing without lessons, and maybe the
'rents will come around when they see her working hard
and remaining committed without a teacher.

--- thomaswinds <thomaswinds@-----.net> wrote:

> 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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