This is for university instructors who do the private teaching thing. I’m just curious …
At the university level do you think instructors should audition students and only take those who are at a certain level? Should the instructor have the right to turn away some students?
I’m asking because I’ve pondered this for a while. Some university classes have prerequisites. For some, students just know better (I hope!) to enroll, knowing they don’t have the knowledge and they they’d certainly fail. But what about what I do? What if I turn away someone who has so much potential that, perhaps in only a year, a formerly beginning student is quite advanced? (It can happen.)
I’d ask about how you grade too, but I have to run off to teach at the university! 🙂
(Please know I’m not complaining. I really AM curious. I think it was spurred on after hearing about William Schuman’s late entry into composition. What if he’d been turned away?)
