Private Lesson Policies
Tuition Payment
Tuition is charged monthly based on the number of weeks in the month, along with a monthly recital program fee. Click here for current school year tuition. To reserve a timeslot, tuition for the full month must be paid for all weeks in the month regardless of how many lessons the student plans to attend. Tuition for the upcoming month is due by the final lesson of the current month. If not paid on time, the timeslot may be reassigned to a new student. We recommend that you elect automatic monthly payment to prevent loss of your timeslot due to an inadvertent late payment.
Missed Lesson and Makeup Policy
Once you have reserved a month’s lessons, we pay your teacher for all lessons. This includes lessons you are not able to attend for any reason including planned vacations and holidays when the school is open.
Lessons missed or cancelled by the student have no monetary value, cannot be used in place of regular tuition for future lessons, regardless of reason or advance notice of the cancellation, and are not credited or refunded if they are not rescheduled.
- If you cancel a lesson before the lesson start time, you will receive a makeup credit.
- For one-time lessons only: these cannot be rescheduled unless cancelled at least one day in advance.
Scheduling Makeup Lessons
- How to cancel and schedule makeup lessons from your online portal
- If you cancel a lesson before the lesson start time, you will receive a makeup credit. Your teacher is still paid for the cancelled lesson.
- Makeup credits have no monetary value, and cannot be used in place of regular tuition for future lessons, and are not credited or refunded if they are not rescheduled.
- Makeup credits can be used to schedule additional lessons with any teacher for any instrument in timeslots cancelled by other students any week you are paying for a lesson. (Pre-K students may schedule only with their primary teacher)
- If you do not see makeups that fit your schedule, check back again as new makeup lessons appear whenever a student cancels a lesson.
- You may schedule up to 4 makeup lessons every 30 days (48 makeups per year) using our online makeup scheduling system.
- Makeup lessons may not be scheduled beyond the date of your final paid lesson.
- Makeup lessons may not be scheduled within 7 days of any lesson that was not paid due to a school holiday or teacher’s absence.
Lessons Cancelled by the School
Tuition for lessons cancelled by Marlton Music Academy due to snow, instructor illness, or facility conflicts will be credited to your account and deducted from the next month’s invoice. However, if a substitute teacher has been scheduled at the same day and time of the original lesson, there is no tuition credit.
Online Lessons
In the event of a public health crisis, inclement weather, power outage, instructor’s inability to travel, or other situations that temporarily prevent in-school lessons, lessons may be held online through Zoom. There is no tuition credit in these situations.
Students also have the option to attend lessons online instead of in-person whenever they wish. If attending a lesson online, make sure the most recent version of Zoom is installed on your device and complete zoom settings for music to ensure that your teacher will see and hear you clearly.
School Holidays
Tuition is not charged for days the school is closed: Memorial Day, July 4th, Labor Day, Thursday and Friday of Thanksgiving week, and December 24th through January 1st. Tuition is charged for all other days of the year.
Substitute Teachers
If your teacher is out sick or on vacation, another teacher from within our regular faculty may be scheduled to teach your lesson at the regularly scheduled time. Substitute lessons are billed the same as regular lessons. If you prefer to not attend the lesson, you may cancel your lesson in your online portal and receive a non-monetary makeup credit that you may use to schedule a makeup lessons in timeslots cancelled by other students (see Makeup Lessons above).
We strongly encourage you or your child attend lessons with our teachers who may be substituting for your regular teacher, as getting to know our other teachers will make it easier for you to schedule makeup lessons in the future.
Performances
- October – Fall Open Mic Recitals
- December – End of Year Recitals
- April – Spring Open Mic Recitals
- June – End of School Year Recitals
Participation in recitals is optional, however there is no adjustment of tuition for recitals in which a student does not participate.
Stopping Lessons
You may stop lessons at the end of any calendar month.
If you have already paid the month’s tuition, you may stop lessons by providing 14 days advance notice. Tuition for lessons more than 14 days from your notice date is credited to your account for future use, but is not refunded.
Photography, video, and audio recordings of students
Marlton Music Academy’s (hereafter referred to as “MMA”) school staff routinely photographs and makes audio and video recordings of student performances, private lessons, school and group activities which we may publish in, but not limited to, brochures, posters, in-school displays, MMA’s website, and on MMA’s social networking websites such as Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube. As a condition of enrollment at MMA, you grant MMA the right to utilize photos, video, and audio of student performances, interviews, private lessons, school and group activities such as classes, lessons, and camps. Exclusion of a student’s photos or recordings may be requested in writing addressed to the school’s email address. MMA will make best efforts to comply with exclusion requests when possible, however exclusion requests will not be granted with regards to group photos or videos that include other students or staff.