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From:  "Yvonne Dechance" <ydechance@h...>
Date:  Mon Mar 4, 2002  5:32 pm
Subject:  Re: can we discuss lesson prices?

Lea Ann said "so you can understand why a teacher working out of her home
who teaches mostly high school students and has no degree or a low level
degree could not compete with a teacher who teaches students who want to be
professionals, who is teaching out of a studio and has credentials out the
wazoo."

While I understand your overall point, I must take exception to the concept
that teaching in one's home, or the age or goals of one's students, must
affect the cost a teacher charges for lessons. The concept that a teacher
who works in a place other than a school or rented studio, specializes in
younger students (or older, or non-classical, or whatever), and accepts
students who are not planning on professional careers...that that teacher is
automatically less of a teacher than others is an unfair assumption. There
are good teachers and bad in every category. Those teachers dedicated to the
nurturing of beginning musicians are, in my mind, to be particularly
esteemed, because they provide the foundation for further study.

Teaching singing at any level, in any place, is a profession and a business.
Supply and demand plus cost of living may come into play when setting fees,
but the owner of that business sets the fee(s) and accepts the fact that
that will attract some customers and repel others. Like Sharon and many
others on this list, I love what I do, but I expect to be compensated for my
skills and experience, not where or who I choose to teach.

-y


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