1156  Keeping students interested

Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 12:18:26 -0700
From: Robert Dodier <robert_dodier@YAHOO.COM>
Subject: Keeping students interested

Frank G.Williams wrote, in part:

> But I think that the best thing we can do to retain
> students is simply to be nice to them.

This is so incredibly important. The "we" here is not
just the
teachers, but the other students in the class and the
people
that beginners will bump into (literally &
figuratively) at
the milonga.

If you (a student, teacher, both, or neither) want
people
to come back to the milonga, you can help by doing
what
you can to make sure that they enjoy the experience.

Tango is subtle, and it takes a long time for it to
really
sink in. There's not a lot that can be done to speed
up
the process. But we can make it enjoyable and
rewarding
while that development is going on.

For what it's worth,

Robert Dodier

Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 19:22:55 -0400
From: Manuk Colakyan <manukc@CITYNET.NET>
Subject: Re: Keeping students interested

Well there is an aspect of this thread we seem to forget . What if
people simply do not like their tango experience and just drop out or
lose interest? The assumption on this list is that whoever ventures in
the tango world must end up being hooked like the most of us. Wrong!
How many of us tried different thingsother than tango in life and simply
dropped out them because of lost of interest... or simply we did not
likeit. I think we have been too analytical in trying to explain the
different reasons why people get frustrated and drop out..

Manuk