I haven’t had many (if any) appointments after that particular meeting, since most of my clients decided to drop out of the class. I never really had a hard time saying no. In most cases it wasn’t necessary. Because I was helping them with basic concepts, if they didn’t understand it and it wasn’t clear in the book (as was sometimes the case), I would just tell them what they needed to know. They never asked me to actually do assignments for them, and really the most common task I had was to help them come up with strategies for themselves to memorize important things like declension case endings and how to conjugate verbs.
I rarely had any negativity, either. One client repeatedly said that she was going to fail the exam she was preparing for, but all I did was reassure her that she understood more than she thought she did (which was true). After a while working on strategies, we called it a day, and she took the test. She ended up doing alright. I think she said she got a B-, but she stayed in the class and is doing fine.
