Ya it costs me nothing to use your preferred name and it presumably means a lot to you. That's a great trade! Plus I would want people to say my name correctly, so why wouldn't I extend the same courtesy to others?
If you don’t see the potential in the student FIRST (in whatever subject you are teaching), then you shouldn’t be a teacher. Period. My job is to help people discover the musician within. Truly, that is the first and most important thing.
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If they tell me their name is X, then that’s what I use, because why on earth wouldn’t I?
Fine.
Today, ladies, gentlemen, and lawnmowers, we’re learning about tritone substitutions.