{"id":646,"date":"2009-01-07T23:23:50","date_gmt":"2009-01-07T23:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=646"},"modified":"2009-01-07T23:23:50","modified_gmt":"2009-01-07T23:23:50","slug":"two-faced-pupils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=646","title":{"rendered":"Two-faced Pupils"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last year I had a pupil who couldn’t afford her lessons and she cancelled a lot of them. In fact, between July and the beginning of October she cancelled six lessons – that’s about once a fortnight, or every other lesson (and there were cancellations before July, too). It’s also worth noting that because she was saving for a holiday, then went<\/em> on that holiday,\u00a0there was a period where she had no lessons anyway, which makes the cancellation rate even worse.<\/p>\n

I knew she was strapped for cash and I never had a go at her about this. Even on the occasions when the cancellation was with less than 48 hours notice I didn’t charge her. She was a nice girl, good driver, nearly ready for test, etc.<\/p>\n

At the start of October I got a text message cancelling yet another lesson. My mobile phone uses Outlook and text messages are shown as previews. I saw the usual ‘got to cancel’ and ‘sorry’ phrases and left it at that. What I hadn’t seen was the request lower down the message to book one for 25th October. Obviously, I didn’t reply.<\/p>\n

On the morning of 25th October I got a text asking where I was. I replied that we had nothing booked… but later on it dawned on me to look at her previous texts to see if I’d missed anything, and that’s when I discovered this request at the end of her last cancellation. Although it wasn’t my fault\u00a0I apologised profusely. But she refused to acknowledge my texts or phone calls, and I gave up.<\/p>\n

Just to summarise for a moment:<\/p>\n