u/Inevitable-Shoe-2749

▲ 7 r/Cambly

Really want to block this student but worried about bad rating.

So I had the same student for the second time today. The first lesson was about a month ago. The actual lesson today was OK, but after the lesson today he messaged me asking if I noticed an improvement from his first lesson with me a month ago(which I barely remember). I said that its hard to notice a difference from 1 lesson I had with someone a month ago. Then he asked me to look at the recording from the previous lesson to see if there's a difference. I told him I can't see recordings of past lessons.

After the first lesson, a month ago, he wrote me asking how long to improve his English from A2 to B2 level. I basically said it would be very hard to predict that, then he told me he wanted to achieve this in 1 or 2 months. I found this pretty laughable and just didn't respond when he said that.

I would rather just avoid this guy and block him. He booked another lesson with me tomorrow. I have enough time to block him and cancel the lesson but I'm worried this might just result in him giving me a shit rating as I don't know if he has already rated the last lesson or not. What do you guys think?

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u/Inevitable-Shoe-2749 — 8 days ago
▲ 10 r/Cambly

I guess that the title isn't totally accurate because of course there is a reason, but what I mean is they haven't done anything THAT bad. Just generally boring conversation, not replying to messages, not an overall friendly vibe. I have a regular that I find myself dreading the classes a bit. They also complained once that they didn't feel like they were improving fast enough, so tried more challenging lessons but he didn't like them. Today I was about 90 seconds late for a class and he closed the lesson. My fault to be fair, but I had a wifi issue and had to reset it. I thought they were a little impatient here and I am tempted to block them. I just find all my other regulars have an easy and friendly vibe to the lesson that is missing here. What do you guys think?

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u/Inevitable-Shoe-2749 — 22 days ago