well naturally I wouldn't support or suggest blackmail - that is a pretty ridiculous leap to make. I am just saying that students chit chat and if someone asked the student if she would recommend the teacher one of things on her mind might be the bad classroom environment. My students study with lots of teachers and I encourage them to and sometimes I hear about bad classroom etiquette from my students. There are a few teachers my students won't go to because XYZ was going on the classroom. So I try to be very conscious of how this small community works and the teacher should already understand that it can damage their student base if they don't maintain a good class. Just like it gets around if a teacher makes fun of students or says inappropriate things in class. There are lots of threads on here where students are complaining about their teachers. But very few instances where the teacher was unwilling to adjust or listen to the student. So I guess a better thing so say would be that many of the students agree and have discussed between themselves and feel that it needs to change.
No one is suggesting spreading bad stuff around about each other but also thinking the belly dance community isn't ridiculously gossipy is pretty naive. JMO.
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