Comments on: What Would You Do? – Phoebe (#8)

By: Leo Dro

Leo Dro — Thu, 13 May 2010 07:21:00 +0000

Then, Ed, you are a fool. And a cheat.

I wouldn’t pay a teacher for that time. 20 minutes late, leaving me ten minutes? Really? No.

Like the first comment said, there’s a measure of responsibility and the teacher and student should both have the other’s phone number.

The policy should match that of the student’s version. What if a student is late? Do they get a make-up for the same reason? If not, then the teacher is in no way just by not offering credit or a make-up.

By: Ed Pearlman

Ed Pearlman — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:48:06 +0000

One thing I used to do to pre-empt such a possibility was to make the following policy (and this was before cellphones!): if for any reason, either I or the student wasn’t there at the start of a lesson, we would wait 20 minutes for each other before feeling free to leave. If I didn’t make it by then, the student would get a partial credit towards next lesson; if the student didn’t make it, the lesson would be charged for.

By: Amy

Amy — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:08:43 +0000

This is easy. It’s your fault. You give a credit. You should have been more prepared by having her number in your cell phone, and you should have let her know in advance that there was a chance you could be late. Anytime you have a student that is first at a location and you are traveling to get there, you need to let them know that there is a possibility you could be late due to traffic, etc. . .

This is complete irresponsibility on the part of the teacher.

You apologize, and give her a credit or offer her a make-up lesson at a mutually agreeable time.