My child did Kindermusik with Kathleen for years, not because of Kathleen, but because we loved the Kindermusik program. There are now are far better teachers of the Kindermusik curriculum in the area.
I always found her very uptight and unmusical.
With my second child I found another local music school where the teacher has a post graduate music degree, and the lessons are much more fun and funky. Kathleen does not have "the funk". Or much soul either. Her first discipline was ballet, and it shows in her rigidity and attempts at perfectionism.
If you want your baby to do music with an uptight school marm, then Kathleen is the one for you. I remember trying to talk to her once about how children experience musicality in different ways. She told me that's "not how things are done in America". Nice huh? We were not "American" enough for Kathleen.
As your child grows you discover that Kathleen has a very rigid and authoritarian approach to discipline. If you want white-bread, funk-free and fun-free music lessons she is the one to go to. She doesn't care that your child does not enjoy their lessons. That's your 4 year old kids fault, not Kathleens! LOL
To me she is the classic example of the kind of music teacher that turns kids against music for life. Pointlessly authoritarian and somewhat rude with her personal comments.
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