And just like that, school's over and we're into summer! Wow! What a great year it was, and now we're getting ready for the fall, and that means summer lessons. Summer lessons are great for students as we can focus on more individualized issues, and since it keeps students practicing, it is a time when students can make a lot of progress in a short period of time. I always get excited when I see students for the summer because I know they will return to band in the fall much better prepared than students who didn't take summer lessons.
Now onto the billing -
I know I went over most of this on the last blog post, but just to make sure we have everything covered, here are the important points:
- If you have not paid your full May invoice balance, I will not schedule any further lessons until you do. Summer is always a weird time for payments with vacations, travel, and just being out of the normal routine, and I don't want anyone to have sticker shock when we get back to school in August.
- Payment for summer lessons is due at the time of the lesson.
- I will not send an invoice for each lesson.
- You will still receive an invoice after each month.
- I will not schedule lessons for July until all June lessons are paid, and them will do the same thing in August.
- We will return to the normal payment arrangements in August.
Scheduling has been a little difficult, but not too bad. It just happened that almost every school I teach at chose Tuesday to be open for lessons, and that, of course, doesn't work for me as I am at a lot of schools, and they are not all near each other. Thankfully I have been able to work it out with some of the band directors to teach on different days, so I have had spots available for everyone so far. I know this has caused some confusion as the band directors have advertised Tuesdays as the day for lessons, so thanks to all of you for working with me to schedule lessons on other days. Just remember that summer lessons are scheduled week-to-week, so you may not always have lessons on the same day of the week.
I will be out of town quite a bit this month, so I will make sure you know which weeks there will or won't be lessons when I contact you about the schedule. I should be around for all of July, but there will be band camps at the end of the month, so there may be some interruptions due to that.
So, whether you are taking summer lessons or not, I hope all of you have a great summer, and safe travels! I look forward to seeing you soon!
