carang
Registered User
all i can say is... wow!
as someone who runs a school, i am ALWAYS aware that i am a temporary fixture in the child's life (hopefully a memorable one), but that the PARENTS are in the driver's seat. i can make gentle suggestions on how to handle "problems", but it is NOT my place to tell parents how to parent their children. i can only offer advice and suggestions and my own experience as a teacher and a mother, but by no means do i believe it is my place to enforce those ideas on others.
i am also completely aware that although i have a waiting list, my reputation is what matters to me. i have made exceptions to every rule i've made when individual circumstances are taken into consideration.
ie. if a lesson is cancelled/unattended by a child due to illness a dr certificate must be presented in order to receive a make-up class. HOWEVER, i have one mother who has been battling cancer. FOR HER, i told her that if she ever felt unwell, just let us know. we would have our schedule fit her. we would do our best to get her daughter into the number of classes that she had paid for and i guaranteed her that she would not lose any $ due to the fact that she was suffering nausea or any other symptom of the chemo that she was undergoing.
parents are the bread and butter of the business of education. if you cannot maintain good relations with the parents, it won't be long before your reputation suffers and you begin to lose students....
as someone who runs a school, i am ALWAYS aware that i am a temporary fixture in the child's life (hopefully a memorable one), but that the PARENTS are in the driver's seat. i can make gentle suggestions on how to handle "problems", but it is NOT my place to tell parents how to parent their children. i can only offer advice and suggestions and my own experience as a teacher and a mother, but by no means do i believe it is my place to enforce those ideas on others.
i am also completely aware that although i have a waiting list, my reputation is what matters to me. i have made exceptions to every rule i've made when individual circumstances are taken into consideration.
ie. if a lesson is cancelled/unattended by a child due to illness a dr certificate must be presented in order to receive a make-up class. HOWEVER, i have one mother who has been battling cancer. FOR HER, i told her that if she ever felt unwell, just let us know. we would have our schedule fit her. we would do our best to get her daughter into the number of classes that she had paid for and i guaranteed her that she would not lose any $ due to the fact that she was suffering nausea or any other symptom of the chemo that she was undergoing.
parents are the bread and butter of the business of education. if you cannot maintain good relations with the parents, it won't be long before your reputation suffers and you begin to lose students....
