I posted this in the other place...but I think I was supposed to post it here. I just need some support here....
This is going to sound like a silly post but....I am an adult student in this piano class....and the instructor is sort of sarcastic and negative sometimes. I think I learn pretty quickly, and the class is actually really slow for the most part. I was going into my "third semester" in the second level, and I hadn't practiced in a while due to being in grad school and working, so when I got to the piano for class it was super awkward. However, I knew I could catch up quickly, so I wasn't worried. On the way out the door the instructor asked to talk to me. She told me I might need to consider taking class a different night with a slower class. I said I couldn't due to work schedule, but that I could catch up. She basically was like "yeah....well....I think you need the slower class regardless based on your past progress" or something like that. So I left just feeling like I didn't want to come back. I had already paid 300 dollars though....but I have anxiety and I just didn't want to deal with her. I would sometimes leave her class feeling bad anyways, so this was sort of the last straw. So I called the school and asked to transfer to a different instructor....then I find out the only classes I can take are ones that she teachers and that she is the OWNER of the school. So I'm stuck with this 300 dollar credit and tonight I emailed her asking for a private lessons with a different instuctor to "catch up" and she said she couldn't "make any more special exceptions for me" and she couldn't bend the rules anymore. She acted like she was doing me a favor by letting me use my 300 dollar credit at all....and making me feel guilty yet again for being behind. She was like "I know you don't practice, so it would be better to retake the level 100 class anyways" or something to that effect, when I literally just told her I'm at home working on the 200 level books.
Anyways, I'm about to just tell them to keep their stinking money. This was supposed to be "Adult Recreational Piano" and it was supposed to be for fun. Now I feel like I'm being sent to detention. It sounds silly, but it makes me really upset.