yikes...that is crazy...but you are handling it really
well...but i might recommend contacting your local
better business bureau (i think it cost money to file
now...but if the music store won;t back you up...that
should open their eyes a little...and it would be
worth it!
good luck!
christine
--- Lea Ann Martin <LeaAnn@k...> wrote:
> I had to share this because it's incredible bad luck
> (funny because it's so incredible)...and maybe not
> too unusual for a place that has very few cultural
> opportunities. My voice teacher was to have
> maternity leave until the 12th of this month, and if
> you have followed this saga you'll know I haven't
> had a lesson on well over two months due to her
> being at home, during this time she refused to
> return phone calls and if you were fortunate enough
> to speak to her she was aloof and annoyed. She
> didn't show up for her first lesson after maternity
> leave and would not answer her phone. Yesterday I
> called the music store where she teaches and was
> told that she would indeed be in to teach another
> "first" lesson after maternity leave. She never
> showed up. Which is laughable! I called her twice
> and finally she answered the phone and in a rather
> bored annoyed voice told me "no, she wasn't coming
> in" I asked her when she planned on teaching
> another lesson she said maybe sometime in May. I
> could actually feel my face getting red when I was
> talking to her. I told her I hadn't seen in in over
> two months, she never returned phone calls and at
> this point I thought perhaps I should find someone
> else. She said "whatever if that's the way you
> feel" I asked her if she could refund the month I
> had already paid for and she said she would have to
> look in her notes, I asked her to take down my
> address so she could send me a check and she said
> "no, I am holding my baby right now" I was just
> about to the boiling point when she said that. I
> asked her why she hadn't called any of us to
> reschedule and she did't say anything. I asked her
> about her recital and she said, "well I will just
> move that up I don't know when" and mind you she has
> students who have been scared to death they would be
> performing selections they have had no teacher for
> NEXT week. She called NO ONE to tell them not to
> worry or to chill out...she simply did nothing. I
> honestly just had to laugh. I cannot imagine who in
> their right mind would defend a teacher like this!
> OH and let me add....she ended the call by saying "I
> am a very busy person you know and I have a lot
> going on right now" It was classic. her hand out
> of "policies" seems like toilet paper, because
> everything it says is nonesense. I would like my
> month refunded, I do plan on contacting the music
> store about her, and requesting they get some sort
> of address for her so that I may write and ask for a
> check.
>
> So it just goes to show you it IS possible to have
> really really bad luck finding a teacher. I cannot
> imagine how her behavior could be defended, when I
> asked why she wasn;t coming in yesterday she said
> "well we're moving so I am packing". And I know for
> a fact that she had students waiting for her at her
> studio. No one was called and frankly she couldn't
> have cared less. If she had cared less she would
> have been in a coma!
>
> SOOOOO teacher number THREE....who is supposed to be
> the BEST around. Very elderly man named Gordon
> Gaines, has taught several opera stars, and many a
> voice teacher. He was Professor Emeritus at my
> university for 35 years. I have full faith he won't
> flake out!!!!
>
> Lea Ann
>
>
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