So Twinkletoes...

After an hour you simply called it quits and left a 12 year old outside by herself??? I know an hour is BEYOND what you should ever be waiting for parents to come and pick up their kids and that they did sign a contract but while at a studio that YOU are teaching at, she is YOUR responsibility. Just because there is a store downstairs that could "keep an eye on her" that's not their job! They have a store to run, not a 12 year old to watch. In all honesty, what would you have done had something happened to her? Said "Well it wasn't my fault I decided to leave her alone outside because her parents made me wait for an hour already"?? I understand that we all have places to go and things to do, but you should never leave any child all alone like that.

I don't know, I just find it a little wrong that you left her all alone in the freezing cold.