u/wrtrfantasea

Student disappeared

Hello, quick question to make sure what to do next.

I've been a tutor on preply for the past three/four months. I teach a language (not english). I started, as many others here, with a very low rate and slowly went up. All of my earlier students are with me and even accepted to pay more with the coming renewal.

But... one student has been cancelling classes or simply not showing up for the past 6 weeks. At first, she would cancel last minute and write an apology saying her work schedule changed and she needed to find a better time for our classes. I understand that so I kept going, each week writing her to remind her to change the time of the class. She would see, say it was okay and then simply cancel last minute. However, the past two weeks she has not even written me back or anything. I show up, stay the usual 15 minutes and leave.

My question is: what is the best action to take here? As far as I've read here, cancelling her classes will impact me negatively but also blocking her can lead to problems for me. I haven't blocked any student so far because I got lucky with mine and my rate is way higher now and the new students are even better. I only have this one problem and I'm not sure what to do with it.

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u/wrtrfantasea — 7 days ago