| S had an orchestra conductor at a prominent arts high school who wanted him to pay $700 to a professional sub for a pit orchestra, under threat of flunking him, when he had an audition scheduled. THere was another high school player on the sub list, but the conductor would not accept that player. It took intervention to the highest level of the school. Our stand was they could flunk him or they could excuse him or they could drop him from the course, but they could not make him pay (extortion) to pass the course (grade fraud). We would have liked to have been the fly on the wall when they ran that one by the school attorney. [To be fair, there was a conflict concerning the date by which he was supposed to tell them he needed to be gone, but he had not known he could do the audition until after that date, so it was impossible to meet the deadline.....to have told them he needed to be excused, someone else required to play in the pit, and then stayed home would have been disingenuous at best.] ] |