Is AUTHOR wrong in the post ? POST : I work for an in-home music lesson company three days a week. It's interesting, challenging work most of the time, and it helps to be able to see what type of environment my students practice in. However, it is also full of entitled people and those who otherwise can't be arsed to take their kids to a proper music studio. A recent exchange has left me wondering, though.

A parent of two of my students (henceforth "Florence") recently signed them up for basketball practice this month. The only problem is that the basketball practice is in conflict with their piano lesson time (one we established months ago, I might add). Less than 24 hours before I am supposed to go over there, she asks if I could possibly move their lesson time half an hour later to let them have time to take a shower in between. A couple things, for context:

-Their lessons are on Saturdays, when I teach for 12 hours straight with a 45 minute lunch break (if I'm lucky and don't have to teach a make-up class to anybody). 

-Their lessons are my final lessons on Saturdays.

-Florence and I have discussed moving them to another day in the past, but so far no slots have worked for both of us. 

-Florence knows I work long hours on Saturdays.

-Florence has also, repeatedly, attempted to talk me down to charging a quarter of my usual hourly rate (because her kids are so great, don't you know).

So I refused, and fairly forcefully so. I told her that it seemed that she did not respect my time at all, and suggested a break. I'm actually kind of hoping that she just won't call me back, ever...