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Input: So I’m in a quartet of high schoolers that formed spring of last year. I was actually invited to join them, as a former member had just quit and they needed another for some competitions they were planning.  I was never supposed to be a permanent member, but because we won all the competitions,  parents decided to keep it going into the following fall semester. The four of us were all going to be seniors, so I was a little hesitant to continue, knowing that college apps, and classes were going to take up a lot of time. 

Fast forward to now, I’m very heavily considering just quitting the group altogether because of the flakiness in some members.
For example:

The entire quartet would agree on coming in an hour early to work on our pieces. However, half of the quartet didn’t show up, and I was left wasting an hour of my time.

The same half would also often come to rehearsal late (~15 mins)

The same half would come to a performance with only ten minutes to warm up, when we all agreed to have an hour.

Rehearsals not led by a coach would be unproductive.

I have tried talking not only with the members, but to the parents themselves, but have seen no improvement of being on time.

I can’t be mad at any of the members, because it would ruin the entire rehearsal (quartets are all about communication)


Ive talked about quitting numerous times with my mom, citing the blatant disrespect, and the amount of time wasted on my weekends (~3 hours), but she thinks it would be an asshole move, considering I already agreed to commit last fall, and we have performances planned. As much as I understand my mom, I can’t help but still feel justified, considering I didn’t know about the flakiness last fall.

I definitely will consider just gritting my teeth through the rest f the semester, but WIBTA if I decided to quit?


quitting my group