The Many Stories of Bill Fitzpatrick: Leaving my French students

So my family made the decision to leave France and move to Southern California. I asked a few friends though about when I should tell my students that I was leaving at the conservatory. They all said wait until the last moment but I decided to tell the parents first and ask them to let me know when they thought it best to tell their child. In the meantime I told the director of the conservatory and he said "so you are going to the US to teach them all that we taught you". Anyways a month or so went by and parents told me that I could tell the children. This turned out to be quite the emotional ordeal as one of them just stood and cried, another threw their violin to the ground and said I quit, another just stood stoically holding back the tears. It truly was a very difficult moment.

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