insurance

[Willem Blees]

Les

To find out if the PTG's insurance company will protest you is to call them. (You can get their number from the HO).?I asked them that question once, but that was 10 or 15 years ago. I didn't get?a straight answer, but I thought they said yes. But their policy might be different now.?
When Jan taught piano lessons 6 hours a week at a catholic school in Tuscaloosa she had to get finger printed.
But even if you have the insurance, and get finger printed,?it doesn't prevent a student or parent to sue you. If you want to continue to tune for the schools in Texas, you should insist that a teacher, administrator, or security person stays with you the whole time you're in the building.?Maybe when enough school?administrators have to start spending more time taking care of these kinds of things, and?less time doing what their supposed to be doing, things will change. 


Willem (Wim) Blees, RPT
Piano Tuner/Technician
Honolulu, HI
Author of 
The Business of Piano Tuning
available from Potter Press
www.pianotuning.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Leslie Bartlett <l-bartlett at sbcglobal.net>
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Sent: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 11:42 am
Subject: insurance



Does insurance which PTG members buy on their business (I know, I've been avoiding the obviously necessary),? cover sexual harrassment issues??? I've tuned for a school district for years, with not a problem.? But next year Texas State law will require fingerprinting.? In the district where I have tuned, a retired teacher doing a long-term substitute position has already been accused of "bruising a girl".? This is a man of such expertise and character that it would be appropriate to introduce him as "The Esteemed Mr. X".? Next year it will be state law in Texas that all persons who have contact with students be fingerprinted.

I've talked to two teachers who have said it is not legally required to carry personal liability insurance over and above what the district has, but if they don't have such they are incredibly stupid.

The level of implied guilt this threatens really bothers me, and teachers have said it should. I have sent a draft of my resignation letter to two administrators, one of whom has already informed me that for my own safety I am wise to get out of the district.??? This, after two days ago having an orchestra director find me an hour after tuning in her room to thank me for spending time with a couple of her students who were so excited to learn a few things and get a chance to tune a note or two.??? It's incredibly sad, this world in which we live. 

So, how is this handled by others who do elementary and high schools?? I am thinking seriously of telling the attendence people that I wish a security person or an administrator walk me to my work area in every school.

les bartlett 


________________________________________________________________________
More new features than ever.  Check out the new AOL Mail ! - http://webmail.aol.com
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20080129/c6efac5d/attachment.html