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Grade 5 piano

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INeedNewShoes · 08/01/2021 11:01

If you are a parent of a musical child who takes exams or if you are a music teacher, what do you think would be the right course of action here (minor moral dilemma):

I'm a piano teacher. My pupil sat an exam last term which he passed.

(I do all the exam entries for my pupils which is a time-consuming process nowadays. I don't charge my pupils for the time I spend doing this.)

The exam board have, in error, refunded the exam fee to me for this exam that has been taken and results received. I have been in touch with the exam board but they have told me to keep the refund 'as a gesture of goodwill'.

Should I:

a) give the refund to the pupil's parent

b) keep the refund and see it as covering some of the time I've spent doing the admin for entering pupils for exams this year

c) split the refund between myself and the pupil

d) give the money to charity

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KaptainKaveman · 08/01/2021 11:13

This is a good question. My dd sits music exams and I'm aware that there is a lot of admin involved which is time consuming, and which her teacher does not charge for.

As a parent I wouldn't mind if you kept the refund, although to offer a 50:50 split would probably be better. Going forward, I would ask for a flat fee every time an exam comes up to cover your time - however many hours' worth it is. I'm sure no parent would begrudge this. You could offer to let the parents enter their own kids ( they'd soon decide they'd far rather pay you!)

SillyOldMummy · 08/01/2021 11:22

Ahh, I'd keep it probably. No harm, no foul.

blobbyface · 08/01/2021 12:10

My Dh is a musician and music teacher. He'd keep the refund - the parents will never know.

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