2-CF FEE AND MAKEUP POLICY

The following is a guide for payment of lessons and for making up missed lessons:

1. Lessons are to paid for by the month. Payment is due before the month that lessons are given, or at least by the 3rd day of the month. If you cannot present the payment in person, please mail it in to the instructor so that will arrive beofre the first fo the month.

2. Skipping payment for one or more months will result in elimnation from the program.We are uable to keep our price at anaffordable rate while at the same time, allowing folks to skip months. Therefore, we seek to teach those who attempt to work at pitching on a year round bases, attending regularly scheduled lessons along the way. Once a player is in the CF program we hope that she will stay in, until she either quites softball or goes off to college.We have lowered our price to compensate as much as we can for misses that cannot be made up for. This may include months where injury , sickness, softball, or other activities, far away travel, or whatever occurs. Payment is still due on time, just as it would be for a day care service or a karate program, for instance. We will try to find some makeup time when the player is able to return. This makeup time may come in several forms as described below.

We will not makeup lessons that are not paid for on time and we will not makeup lessons during the school year that are made neccasary by activities other than softball games. If a player cannot make lessons at the typically assigned time for her, due to other activities( volleyball or basketball, for instance), we will try to find a new time for the player. However, this means a loss of your original spot. The new time may be with a group, or it may be as late at night as 8 30 , or 9 00, or it may mean that you will need to travel to another location of instruction and that could be 20-50 miles away! It may eveen mean waiting several months to get to the makeups.

In any case payment is due on time and to stay in the program, payment must be recieved. We wish to teach girls who are into softball first and primarily. That bieng said we can almost always work things out for those willing to sacrifice in such cases , especially when we have notice days , or weeks in advance. Furthermore, we ask that everyone realize that this is how we make our living and giving up time for maeups means either giving up income , or giving up family and rest times.

Makeup options: In a case where a player had to miss a lesson due to illness, or a softball game and we were notified ahead of time, we will try to makeup the lesson in one of the following methods.
A. Extended Time. She can pitch extra minutes at a regularly scheduled lesson. If another girl is missing a lesson either at the same time, or a time just before or after , then the makeup can occur during that time. This is a preferred method, but it may require waiting several months to take advantage of.

B. Early or Late. The player may be asked to come before a days's lessons begin , or after they all end.

C. Call Around Method. Calls can be made to see if any others are going to have to miss their lesson.One can then attend the others lesson time. This option is taken advantage of when games are being played and knowledge of schedules are well known. In this case a miss for any reason can be taken care of between members.

D. In areas where group lessons are given, makeups will commonly be offered during these. Groups may not be the preferred way to learn for many, but occassional group lessons can be a very good thing and they certainly shoud be expected to suffice as a makeup venue.

E. Free clinic attendance. It may take weeks or months to come about in this case, but attending a clinic for free or for a discounted rate in the case of the longer clinics and mini camps, is a great way to makeup lessons.

F. Extended Month. Sometimes a month has 5 lessons in it instead of the actual 4, or 3 instead of 2 ( for some weekend locations) in these case the instructors will usually use the extra day to take care of recent missed lessons by the members. (Sometimes these extra date will have to be used to compensate for the rare times the instructor has to miss. )

PLEASE REMEMBER we will not arrange makeup lessons in the following cases:

A. No call came well in advance to warn us of the miss. Same day warning does not count in most cases. -Sorry!
B. The miss was for a non- softball game activity. Practice does not count as coaches will, or should allow players to attend lessons.
C. Someone forgot about the lesson, went shopping, attended a party, or get together.
D. Payment was not received on time.

In any of the above case members may be able to makeup lessons time through extended time when others are absent, the extra lesson in a month event, or the call around method can be used to see if someone is going to miss.

Generally, about 90% of our members comply with these attendance standards over the years.