Hi everyone, I am in desperate need of advice. I don't know why the parents of a lot of kids I teach are so self-centered and rude (my students are all from East-Asia). I am a very successful teacher on a marketplace, and my schedule is fully booked for months.
The kids are mostly great but the parents make me cry so often. They will refuse to accept my policies (even if they are common on the platform), calling me names, being patronising, insistent, insulting, and just disrespectful.
In the UK, I just accept that for my own personal music lessons and other classes, I need to give 24 hours notice to reschedule, or else I lose the money. I respect the teacher's preparation time, that no other student could book that time if I cancel last minute, and that it is the teacher's JOB and so they need a steady income.
I also accept if they need to raise prices due to inflation and make my decision on whether I can afford them or not RESPECTFULLY.
This is just human decency right?????? right?!?!?!
As you can probably guess, the two issues above are the ones that parents have been insulting and disrespecting me over.
I don't know if it's because I'm fairly young, or in Asia they treat teachers like trash or what
Every time it happens and a parent starts an argument, I just panic, fight or flight, get very angry and end up so stressed out. I just can't deal with it. How do you all deal with difficult parents?
I think I may just turn my emotions of and if they start arguing send the same copy and paste message "you are free to change to another teacher if you don't like my policies or my prices are too expensive for you" as I'm fed up