Family doesn’t understand student teaching

My fiancé starts her student teaching on Monday and spent an hour on the phone last night with her family explaining why she had to quit her job to go do her student teaching. This was not the first time she has told them about this but they assumed she was joking about it. They really thought she could work a full time job and student teach at the same time. They kept saying things like “Well couldn’t you work at night?” Or “What if you worked on your days off?”

Did any of you have similar experiences with your family when you were student teaching?