Originally Posted by
Onebyone
With a late arrival I expect the instructor to say I'll catch you up when there is a break. It's not fair to the ones that paid and got there on time to wait for the late person to get caught up. There are legit reasons for being late but none really matter to the others in the room and to expect it would is truly self centered. There are quiet a few well known instructors I have taken classes from before that I won't again due to catering to the one class member who can't seem to do anything and need hand holding at every step. The classes were not beginner classes.
That's one of my pet peeves. I hate to sit and wait while one person wants to hog all the teacher's time like it was a private class. I had one teacher who had a student like that and she kindly said "I'll get everyone else sewing and talk to you then". I thought that was a good way to handle it. I once had a woman sit next to me in a class who either couldn't hear the instructions or didn't pay attention. I thought the teacher did a good job of explaining each step but this woman would ask ME questions all the time making it hard to me to keep up. I finally had to just ignore her and pay attention. I kind of hated to do it, but I had paid quite a bit of money to take the class and wanted to hear the instructions instead of tutoring the woman next to me.