If music education is a priority in your view

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My child is at a conservatory now and wishes we had switched DC from our local, sweet teacher to what became the hardcore, pre-professional teacher at age 8. We did it at 10 and in retrospect, it was a mistake. However, we had no idea what we were doing and kid was very happy with placement at the time. In your shoes and reading this thread now, I would make a move to switch to a high level, private teacher (not a school). Good luck!

Why? If your child is at a conservatory, then it doesn't appear to have mattered?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My child is at a conservatory now and wishes we had switched DC from our local, sweet teacher to what became the hardcore, pre-professional teacher at age 8. We did it at 10 and in retrospect, it was a mistake. However, we had no idea what we were doing and kid was very happy with placement at the time. In your shoes and reading this thread now, I would make a move to switch to a high level, private teacher (not a school). Good luck!

Why? If your child is at a conservatory, then it doesn't appear to have mattered?

Because DC felt they had to work much harder in HS to “catch up” and, more importantly, developed some technical issues that took years to correct. Again, DC is the one laments when we made the move. At the time, we felt staying with a kind local teacher was fine. And yes, in the end it all worked out but we probably could have eased the way a little sooner if we’d known more.