Really loyalty has no real place in Karate from a students point. They are paying to learn, they are a customer even though we like to call them student.
They have the right to come and go as they please. They have the right to go to another dojo or style... But if this does happen the sensei gets mad at the student???!?? Yet it his/her fault for them doing this and the angry feeling should be on the person in the mirror!!!
To often the teacher thinks they own the student and call them "their student" as like a piece of pie?!? Yes their students, but with the freedom to do as they wish. It is your job to teach them with heart so they will not wish to leave...
Yes we do teach something they don't know, sure that part is true but we need to stop thinking that dojo owners are the king of their students and only a business person with a heart that loves their job.....
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