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I have prepaid for 20 piano lessons for my kid and unfortunately it's not working out with the teacher. Long story short now we want to leave the teacher but still have 10 lessons left (only half way through). The teacher is a difficult character (reason why I want to leave) and I'm sure she'll pull out all the stops. I paid in cash so aside from some emails talking about lesson times, I don't have any form of receipt. If the teacher refuses a refund for remaining lessons, is there anything I can do or at least file a complaint? Need help please! Thank you.
It's common practice to prepay for music lessons, but I've never heard of prepaying that far in advance. Typical practice around here is to pay the teacher at the first of the month for the entire month of lessons, just like you would for something like childcare. That way the teacher is ensured income as they are holding that spot for the student for the month.
It's also odd to pay in cash.
I would suspect you're just going to have to eat this and learn from your mistakes for next time. You only have two months left. If you really want to quibble over it, you could try telling the teacher that student has decided to give up piano. See if they will agree to accepting one month of notice as acceptable and agree to refund you the last 6 (I assume these are weekly lessons) lessons.
The problem is you really have no power here so if they say no, you've created an awkward situation for your kid. The alternative would be to just walk away from the lessons, or have your kid complete the lessons. There's really not someone to complain to when your kid and the teacher are a personality mismatch and you made the mistake of prepaying for 20 lessons, rather than paying for 4-5 lessons at a time like most people do, unfortunately.
How petty! Are you such a low level rat that you would snitch on a piano teacher to the IRS over lessons. That is utterly pathetic!
I'm sorry but depending upon the circumstances there is nothing wrong with that other than it won't do anything. Why should the piano teacher keep money for lessons not rendered? Apparently this is not a "professional business" or else there would be a contract and no cash accepted or at the very least a contact and paid in full stamped or written on it.
Long island is full of petty vindictive rats. Face the music your kid is probably horrible on the piano and can't be teached. Your looking to blame the teacher for there shortcomings . Like a poster said we only have one cry baby snitches side of the story and to be fair we haven't heard the teachers version!
This whole thread is based on the title, which presumes that the piano teacher did refuse the refund, when the OP had never even approached her about it in the first place....and hasn't reported back.
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