And so ends summer break! I hope everyone had a great one, and found time for fun and family. And, while I'm sure we're all sad to see it end, I'm really looking forward to another exciting year seeing my students' improvements and successes!
I will be out of town for the next week, so there are no lessons planned until 8/15. That coincides with the first week of school for most of you, and that's always a difficult time to schedule lessons, so that works out.
As school starts, I will, as always this time of year, be adding in a lot of new students. That, combined with the various schools and band programs I work with changing or adjusting their schedules, means that we may not have a set schedule for the first few weeks as I put the many pieces of my schedule puzzle together. The name of the game here is flexibility. I will communicate with each of you about my schedule, and will give as much notice as possible of changes, but there will be inevitable hiccups along the way. So, when those happen, I will do my best to make up any misses along the way. Usually this takes 3 or 4 weeks for everything to start smoothing out, so until then, no worries, just stay flexible. And, as I add in all of those new students over the next month or so, you may see a reminder about this in upcoming emails and blog posts.
August is the month where I will adjust lesson rates depending upon your school and/or district's guidelines. If your child was in 8th grade, and they are now in high school and the high school has a higher rate, or of your school or district has adjusted rates, that change will take place on the August invoice that you will receive in September.
And speaking of invoices, Paul, my husband who helps with the billing, noticed an error in our database that caused a miscalculation in just a few of the June invoices related to the switch to the billing-after system. He thinks he has it corrected in the July invoice, so if you see a discrepancy between what the June invoice said was due and what the July invoice has for a balance forward, that is probably the issue. Not all invoices were affected As always, in any case, if there's something there that doesn't make sense, please let us know and we will check it and go over it with you if needed. Billing-after is here to stay, so hopefully we won't run into anymore kinks with the database, and then all we will have to worry about is human error. =)
I look forward to seeing all of my students at school soon!
