The old lady teaches piano somewhere in the vast wilderness of Canuckistan. God knows i've been very critical of her, but it's taken her a long while to get her life back to normal after losing the hotel. Anyway, she was just dropped by a school board that she teaches piano lessons through and it would really hit her income and make her relocation very difficult. Her biggest problem is that she needs to teach at the schools because she doesn't have a house to teach out of, and won't until their house finally sells and that's probably a couple of years off given the economy/market. The contracts are 10 lessons at a time, so they extend from sept->dec and jan->may. Someone at the school board was apparently a displeased that she continued teaching her students privately beyond the school term, but classes are neither offered through the schools in the summer, nor was there any non-compete clause in her contract or anything saying she couldn't. Besides which, her students have Conservatory exams a month after classes end through the schools, so it would be kinda stupid if she told the parents she wasn't going to teach them beyond May. She did post-grad at U of T and has lots of experience teaching, etc. She had gotten good comments from the administrator in charge of the program and all the parents and students like her. Her kids did the best at the recitals and all did very well on their Conservatory exams. The decision seems to be unrelated to performance. I don't deal with parents... My impression of people in general is that they are willing to help out as long as they don't think they're going to get dragged in to something. this is the last paragraph of her email to the parents. I feel it needs some work:
Is asking the parents to ask the administrator the reason for not being rehired asking too much? As parents, would you be generally oblige? I had suggested to her that the parents would naturally ask, as people aren't usually replaced for no reason at all and they will be curious. I'm the one that wanted them to communicate in email, so that there would be a record if the administrator says anything untrue or slanderous. I'd prefer that she not ask for that directly, but maybe i'm being overly analytical... Any thoughts?
Quote:
I know that at the time of re-registration and even at the time of booking your lessons you were not informed that I would not be teaching. I also believe that most of you booked thinking that I would be returning to X school. I'm therefore asking whether you would sign a group letter asking that I be re-instated. I'd also appreciate it if you would e-mail Mrs. X and ask the reason that I was not rehired.
Thanks guys.
