As, indeed, does mine - I typed the sheet up for him, once!

What annoys me is that the teachers here require, quite rightly, 24 hours' notice of a missed lesson or they will charge full fee. Mine actually doesn't if he knows you're not trying it on - he told me once there are some pupils, or rather their parents, who he will charge, because they mess him about. He doesn't charge me - but I pay him anyway, or, ideally, get my husband to take my lesson instead if I've woken up feeling unwell. I don't pay him if I've rung him the night before to cancel, though.

However, having said all that, if your teacher doesn't turn up for some reason without due warning, do you get a free lesson? Do you 'eck.... To be fair, mine will try to make it up at another time, if possible, but some teachers....

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Good point! It is the responsibility of both the skater/parent and the coach to ensure that the working relationship functions with both parties getting the maximum benefit. If the coach is irresponsible, then I think it's perfectly fair for the parents to question his job performance. Ditto for the skater or parents!

for me, if my coach is late for some reason (traffic usually) or no-shows without warning (illness), he's always worked it out.

Usually we just either schedule a make-up lesson or if it's lateness due to traffic or the like, do what time we can on that day and then add extra time to another lesson.

I think a teacher who consistently behaved unprofessionally wouldn't have many pupils after a while! I was really thinking of those times when a lesson has to be missed because your teacher was stuck in traffic, or taken ill in the night, or whatever - you would expect to pay if you missed a lesson under those circumstances, and it would be only right and proper to do so, but the teacher wouldn't necessarily give you a free lesson!

Mind you, I did understand the day my lesson was cancelled unexpectedly because my teacher had to take his wife to hospital to have their first child! Apparently she was saying "Let's go and teach first, and then I'll go to hospital", but he was, quite rightly, having none of it! Their 2nd child, fortunately, managed to be born on a Tuesday so I got the requisite 24 hours' notice of my lesson being cancelled, and as I'd seen her on the Sunday and she was obviously about to go pop, I was neither surprised nor disappointed!

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