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Charging Sufficient Tuition

Editorial note: a teacher was concerned about setting tuition rates so as to do better than merely covering expenses. It generated the following discussion. I am a new Simply Music teacher, but before I taught simply music I was in a very similar situation to…

Standing by studio policies in difficult situations

A family told me this past week that they are discontinuing, because their only remaining lesson mate recently decided to discontinue, and this family did not want to continue in a private situation. My policy is 30 days’ written notice, and they’d prepaid for this…

Help for me and for Life Coach… Student wants to quit

I’ve been teaching for about 8 months, and I’ve lost 3 students so far, all of whom I agreed it was the best decision that they not continue lessons with me. I have 7 other very happy students… and now one who wants to quit.…

Bored Student

This is probably a moot point because this student has all but decided to quit, but I’ll ask anyhow. Here’s the background: 17 year old student, who was my most advanced of traditional students when I transferred my studio over to Simply Music. He has…