Everyone’s trying to salvage something. Realistically, I know that I probably won’t be having a piano recital this year. But I am still setting up lessons with my kids via Zoom and continuing to work on their recital pieces, even though we won’t be back in our building before the end of the semester. There are two reasons. The first is to keep paying customers happy, so that hopefully, next fall, I still have students, but the more important one is that I don’t want to disappoint my kids, who have already lost their usual school routine and contact with their friends. I a, fully expecting to teach an extra month I won’t get paid for because I want to keep them going until the studio is able to reopen, and that won’t be until schools reopen-which will be this summer at earliest. I can also tell you it is costing me more time to figure out online lessons than it would to just show up and teach.
Multiply times about 10 for even the small D2 gym my DD cheers at. They’re trying to keep online training going, trying to keep the customers interested and happy. And like my recital, I suspect they at least want to hang on long enough to have the end of the year banquet-and if they have a chance to do a virtual competition where they can submit videos, they’ll do so, to give the kids something. But, just like my piano studio, it will be summer before they have a chance to go business as usual.
