Private Lesson Attendance

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• Weekly attendance is mandatory and expected from all students.

• It is the responsibility of both student and/or the guardian to arrive on time for lessons.

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Absences

• Students can receive make-up lessons up to two times per session for Excused Absences:

  • Administration must be notified at least 24 hours in advance, via absence form to be considered excused. ALL other absences will be considered Unexcused and are not eligible for a makeup OR refund.​

• After two make-up accommodations, MCIL teachers reserve the right to refuse a make-up.

• All absences that are unexcused are NOT eligible for a refund.

• Make-up lessons that are forfeited, are NOT eligible for a refund. 

• Tardiness is considered forfeiting the time before arrival to a lesson.

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Illness

• We understand that illness is unavoidable, so to prevent putting other students, teachers, and parents at risk, this is the only exception to the above attendance policy:

  • Students are allowed one make-up lesson per session for absence where notification is less than 24 hours prior to the lesson. This is only for illness.​

  • In order to collect your illness absence make-up lesson, you must fill out an absence form within 24 hours of the reported absence.

  • Make-up lessons are scheduled at the availability of the teacher. If the teacher is fully booked, MCIL may assign a substitute teacher for a make-up.

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Teacher Absences

• If a teacher is unable to attend a lesson, options will be offered in this order:

  1. We will provide a substitute to keep the scheduled time slot the same​

  2. The regular teacher will schedule a make-up within the same session

• If a teacher is tardy, students are entitled to the full duration of their lesson. The missing time can be added to the end of the lesson or made-up another time.

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Make-up Lessons

• Any lesson scheduled outside of a students reserved lesson slot is considered a make-up lesson

• In order to facilitate scheduling a make-up lesson, you must fill out an absence form 24 hours prior to the missed lesson

• Make-up lessons due to a student absence will be scheduled in the following order:

  1. Make-up lesson scheduled within the session of the absence

  2. Missed lesson time is added over the course of multiple lessons (within the same session), as scheduling permits

• If a student declines having their regularly scheduled lesson with a substitute, the lesson will be considered a student cancellation.

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Group Class Attendance Policy

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• Any class with more than one student is unable to be rescheduled

  • ​If all members of a class come to the class together/from the same household, the class can be made-up in the following order:​​

    1. Substitute teacher make-up​

    2. Original teacher make-up at alternate time

    3. Lesson time distributed over multiple lessons

• Pre-Piano and Group Class Instructors are subject to change at any time, including the use of the substitute teachers

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Misc.

• Teachers reserve the right to dismiss students from their studio due to the following:

  • Repeated unexcused absences​

  • Inappropriate behavior (Verbal or physical harassment, damage of property, etc.)

• Practice rooms are available to students of MCIL free-of-charge

  • ​Rooms must be reserved 24-hours in advance, no exceptions.​​