So we've found my limit
I'm one of the most patient tutors you could ever have, but even I have my limits. Here are ways to find them.
Show up in the last week of October saying that you missed the first four classes (which started in August) and are still lost on that material, therefore do not understand anything since then, which all builds on it. Bonus points for having no specific questions and thinking I can re-teach you the entire past 10 weeks in an hour. (Granted, that still puts you one up over the ones who pull this crap in December, but still!)
Bringing your kid if you can't get childcare is okay, so long as they can behave. Allowing your toddler to scream his lungs out because he objects to being told to apologize to me for throwing my own pencil at me (which he'd already chewed beyond all recognition ... mechanical pencil, mind) is really, really not. I get that you need to ignore the tantrum, but not in a tutoring center full of stressed-out students trying to learn stuff. I shouldn't have had to tell you that the sane thing to do was take him outside to get him calmed down before I'd even try to continue.
Thank the Gods my 3pm appt no-showed. I desperately needed the break.
Show up in the last week of October saying that you missed the first four classes (which started in August) and are still lost on that material, therefore do not understand anything since then, which all builds on it. Bonus points for having no specific questions and thinking I can re-teach you the entire past 10 weeks in an hour. (Granted, that still puts you one up over the ones who pull this crap in December, but still!)
Bringing your kid if you can't get childcare is okay, so long as they can behave. Allowing your toddler to scream his lungs out because he objects to being told to apologize to me for throwing my own pencil at me (which he'd already chewed beyond all recognition ... mechanical pencil, mind) is really, really not. I get that you need to ignore the tantrum, but not in a tutoring center full of stressed-out students trying to learn stuff. I shouldn't have had to tell you that the sane thing to do was take him outside to get him calmed down before I'd even try to continue.
Thank the Gods my 3pm appt no-showed. I desperately needed the break.