It's a woman who is paying me £20 an hour for maths/English/science for her son. Stupidly didn't check the going rate for tutoring so I accepted her £20 request.
It's a 30 minute journey each way on public transport.
I've been offered a drink once or twice in 3 months, she's never really shown any appreciation either or made positive comments.
She used to be flexible with the time, it was ok for anytime between 6 and 7 as she understood buses weren't always on time and sometimes I finished work later. Now it's 6pm or nothing. I had texted saying I would be there for 6:30 and she replied, "You need to be on time next time."
She occasionally asks how her son is doing. We use a workbook and I mark it so she can see what he's got right and wrong. I annotate and leave notes too, always set homework, mark it etc.
I ask him what areas he struggles with. I'm sure my lessons are not absolutely amazing but I feel that I'm making an effort and I can see progress from him which is great. He gets the majority of questions right.
I'm focusing on grammar exercises as requested.
Tonight she came over at the end of the lesson and asked about his progress etc. I said he was doing great and that we had nearly finished the book. She just said, "Perhaps in the next lesson you can try to introduce X topic and do X first, so that you can 'teach better".
Not sure if it was a language thing as their first language isn't English but i thought that was pretty cheeky of her. i wouldn't tell her how to do her job 'better'.
Don't want to leave the boy in the lurch, it's not his fault. Maybe stick it out for this term, or ask for £25 an hour instead? Not really sure.