Our family had 3 deaths in 3 weeks of 2 close family members and a friend. Alongside job interviews and exams so a stressful month. The latest death happened on the first saturday of half term and was quite sudden. As a consequence my dds homework from half term was not done. (dd is 7 and in yr 3) it was totally forgotten about tbh. The homework came home via a text message with very vague instructions. On monday I wrote a note to the class teacher explaining the situation and apologising. DD came out of school on Monday upset as she had been shouted at for not doing the work. So I went to speak to the teacher,asked if she had got the note. She said she had BUT that the work needed to be done, at the latest by today.(Today was the funeral) I explained we couldn't do it (quite a significant amount of work) but she said she must do the work as it is vital for her SATS and she would be very behind if she didn't do it. I was gobsmacked that a the work was so important but there was no mention of this when it was set. b that the teacher was so rude and abrupt she just demanded that the work was done no empathy for the fact we were having a tough time at all.
I walked away really upset and went home and started to do the homework. DH (A primary teacher) came home to an upset wife and dd so immediately called the head teacher and asked what the issue was. She apologised and said that teacher had dealt with it poorly and would get back to us, which she did. Stating that dd could do the work in class with a TA. Again DD came out of school upset as teacher had shouted at her for doing the homework, so coming back from a funeral I had that to deal with very upset dd again. I will add this is the only homework not completed in 3 yrs and we always do reading and do are usually supportive of the school.