Hi hamish

Ha ha ha

I agree with you. I have found the same attitudes with teachers of musical instruments.

I used to play rugby and we had a number of teachers who played for us. Two of them had wives who were teachers also. One of them played guitar and taught it to the kids in formal classes at school.

I used to take my guitar down to games and afterwards we would have a singalong.

I found it almost impossible to play with her ( !!! music )as she was so fussy and organised about looking right and all that. It used to take us ten minutes to decide what to play how to stand etc etc. We used to lose half the audience before she was ready to play.

She couldn't understand why & how I played standing up, sitting down, kneeling and much later on lying down   lol

I suppose teaching kids in a group is as much about discipline as it is about music.

cheers

Mike