It sounds like you are a great influence on this boy, and mom sees the value in your tutoring relationship with her son, and your ability to deal with his challenges.
I don't know much of the background. I do know what it's like to have a big heart, and want to help people I care about, sometimes to the point of sacrificing my own needs and settling for less than I should. I don't know whether you do this too, but I don't know any special needs tutors that are in it for the money. You have to have a passion for this, or you couldn't do it.
Here is what I would consider:
What is best /most important right now for YOU? Are your needs mainly financial? Does tutoring give you a great sense of value and accomplishment? Do you need more time for yourself?
What causes the most stress for YOU? Having to travel and tutor away from your home? Making less money? Spreading yourself too thin? Working with a challenging student?
Other than the inconvenience, is it costing you more than the up-charge would cover to travel to their home? (Mileage, time, gas, etc)
Are you losing other students by being unavailable those days?
Could this cause you to limit your hours at Kohl's?
Are you agreeing to continue tutoring this boy because if you don't do it, you fear no one else will? Obligated?
If the commitment to one student, at the reduced rate of $400 (around $15/hr?) is keeping you from working with other students at $25/hour... Are the other "payoffs" worth the difference? (You like him, it's rewarding, etc.)
Sometimes they are. Sometimes, meh.
Just throwing stuff out there....I don't know any answers
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