u/InevitableBranch4802

I know that when we have a teacher no-show or a cancelled class bookings are reduced for the next few weeks. So I obviously avoid this.

I'm concerned though, because I was reading comments in an old posting here and in one of them said this also happens if you suggest a level change or say anything negative in the 'tips for next teacher' or 'suggestions to student through vipkid' sections.

I'm not talking about slandering the kid, but simply reporting that the current lessons are too challenging and a change to a lower level might be good for them.

Is it true that this is also treated as a negative, like a troublemaker/squeaky wheel kind of thing and it also leads to reduced bookings? In the long run is it smarter to just never do this?

Is it smarter to just keep my head down, check excellent excellent excellent, and move on to the next lesson? Should I limit my 'tips for next teacher' to name, age and that they did a great job + never write anything in the 'suggestions to student through vipkid' section?

Look, I care about what's best for the children and all that, that's why I have been taking the time to report potential issues. I thought I was helping. But if I'm going to be punished for it I'll stop. More than anything I want to go along to get along. My number one priority is to not have my bookings throttled.

Some of the mind control death rays are leaking through my foil hat now because I just recommended a few level changes and rated the materials for one lesson to be less than 5 stars... and it's suddenly very quiet on the booking notifications front.

Just because some random emergency happens one day at one particular time doesn't make that particular time "high risk" for the next month.

It could be the teacher's best time slot, the time they are always most available but since they had a medical emergency or a power outage once at that time it's considered high risk. Pure idiocy.

I just went though my history and you know what I noticed about the handful of missed classes I've had? THEY ALL HAPPENED AT DIFFERENT TIMES. That's because they were all due to some random one-time occurrence. My computer froze once, once I slept through the alarm I set because my phone was muted, once I had diarrhea so bad I knew I wouldn't be able to sit in the chair for 25 minutes without making a big mess.

The particular times that any of these random incidents occurred has absolutely zero connection to my future availability at those times.

If it's punishment for punishment's sake, well okay, but even if the goal is to limit future bookings as a punishment there are smarter ways to do it. Why tie it all to one particular time slot because of one random incident that happened at that time? It makes no sense on any level.