I took lessons at the Bosse School of Music a few years back, and always felt uneasy with the general nature of the business. They were always trying to sell you something. I know of no other music schools that do this. Most places you go in, have your lessons and for the most part that?s that. Here they constantly beg you to take this program, and that ensemble, and act like your doing something wrong if you don?t.
I remember they implemented a ?certificate program? some years ago, and it was nothing more than a way to convince customers to voluntarily raise the price of their lesson in exchange for a ranking and occasional letter. Couldn?t a teacher just tell a parent how their kid is doing for free? What was so sleazy about this was the fact that they opened up a new building almost immediately after they did this. You don?t have to be a detective to see what happened.
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