For context, I teach wih my own private studio as well as a larger school. while I do have my own policies about quitting (you pay the month's worth on the first week and if you quit that's on you, etc) but at the larger school the payments are done practically every other week. it's a bit more individual since teachers don't control the payments. which is nice since if there's a billing issue it's not my problem, i just deal with scheduling. i just find it fascinating when a student signs up for lessons, then after one or two lessons their parent messages me "hi we're wanting to try a different teacher". Especially a transfer whom I have to spend the first lesson seeing how they learn or what they know, note any technique they're lacking, etc. I was mostly thinking about this since i just had one do exactly this. I thought the lesson went well despite the kids seeming a little tired but they still picked up the things I gave them. i think they dropped because the parents wanted "harder" music but it's of course only lesson one, I was going to have them start new pieces this week to learn things like not being stuck in a fixed position and understanding chords sicne they wanted to do church music...also they needed to learn those things before trying anythung harder anyways. i don't know, most of my students have thankfully not dropped (or at least had been with me a little while and dropped at the start of the new year) so I'm just curious about other experiences with these teacher-hopping students. i mean I get dropping if you don't work well with the teacher or just started and can't commit but...just my thoughts really.   submitted by   /u/LandLovingFish [link]   [comments]