Well,
Let me take the defense, All Martial Arts Schools are a business, “period!” You have to pay expenses just as any other business. You have to make money to allow your school to grow and prosper. You have to create the economic base that will allow you to pay for such expenses. There is of course Ethics and Quality of Services.

If the Consumer is taken advantage of he or she will before long will begin to realize what is happening and drop such Services.

I disagree, if ALL martial art schools were set up as just a buisness, traditional hardstyle arts, like Go-Shin-Kan, wouldn't only have 5 students per class, or instructor. There is definently a diference between a class were you line up 30 students, tell them all to do "this", and "that" and say good job, here's your next belt.
The sad thing is people pay twice as much. The more belts the more money right? So i agree, SOME martial art schools are set up as purely a business. Personaly, I pay for knowledge.

My Question is if your child or yourself can go somewhere where the true love and respect of what ever sport they are participating is what drives and motivates there training wouldn't you want to go there? Or would you rather go somewhere where greed politics and fancy equipment are the number one priority.I teach my children that they should put forth there best effort in anything they pursue. I do not buy them belts or trophies or any other type of recognition they are striving for. They have to earn them . And contrary to popular believe your child does need to learn to fail to become a winner. If belt color and certification is what you are looking for without real traing and discipline . I would be happy to order your belts online and create your certifcate on my pc and sell them to you cheaper than some schools would charge you to participate in one session. In Closing if I walk in to a dojo that has a concrete floor and equiopment that is older and they have proof of heritage and can back what they promote . The real proof is in what you can do not what a piece of paper says. Talk is cheap. I do not mea to be disrespectful but I have seen both sides of the spectrum.

I know that after 1 year in a different style of martial art I would have attained five belts if I signed a contract. Having understood the hollowness in the two belts in one "Free month", how could I look on any student and "Teach". My strongest belief in some of the weaknesses of America is a lack of value in this generation. What I am trying to say is children do not seem to understand the value of a Dollar. Traditional dojos and American dojos also have differences in value. In a traditional dojo a student's respects can be payable by duties or chores. In an American dojo the respects must be money because a student is not allowed to have such access to a dojo. I am trying to show a difference in the idea respects. Go-Shin-Kan has taught me to replace the duties or chores with money. The comparison of all Martial Arts Schools being businesses is accurate from the view "Services rendered by compensation". This knowledge does have a price tag. What a student does after receiving the knowledge is where the value is either lost or honored. When a student does not earn their money to pay for the knowledge the knowledge is not valued. If parents choose to have a child earn their respects then the knowledge is valued. When I read what Wrecking Crew writes I know that those children probably have duties or chores, that turn into money, that turn into respects to the dojo, which shows the Sensei that the student values the knowledge. I wish all parents could read and respond to this. Thank you for allowing me to "pay" respects for the knowledge of Go-Shin-Kan which I will value for me and my children.