Rick,

You are one of the good ones (sadly, one of all too few), and I say that because you have that approach which is that you try to get your student there no matter what it takes...If I wasn't so far away, I would come by and have you teach me some of those Freddie Green chords or something..

You do mention something else that I have noticed, which is a fairly deep and persistant form of sexism among music teachers, and, even if they don't hit on women, a lot of teachers ignore them, do subtle(or not so subtle) things to discourage them, and are generally cold and convey that they don't take them at all seriously--

Again, this is insane, from the teachers point of view, simply because there are so many more women today who have musical aspirations--but it is also sick, pathetic, and unfair, especially among people who claim to have a special sensitivity because they are "artists"...