How on EARTH would one teach guitar to a bunch of rambunctious kids, who have you tearing your hair out with their querulous, attention-deficit behavior half the time, and bemused with their rocker-wannabe antics the other half? =/ I find myself losing the inspiration, and the lesson plan that I was so pleased with threatening to dissolve into a mess. Urk.

But then again... the problem would possibly lie with the (i suppose, hateful) tuning up that I insist they do on their own before each lesson. The ones who make a good job out of it get bored and snarky whilst waiting for their counterparts to struggle through with their own untuned guitars. I don't blame the ones who have to wait. It took up to 40 minutes for all of them to tune up their instruments and settle down peaceably before I could even begin the previous lesson proper. Arrrrgggh. Should I just ditch the tuning and proceed anyway?

Gargh. Ok. I shall cheat today, and bring my guitar tuner to class. Sigh.