I'm pregnant so maybe I'm overly emotional but I'm a 10th grade science teacher. Last Friday I had a mother tear into me and tell me if I can't treat all kids the same I'm a pathetic teacher who should quit and she feels horrible for the baby I'm carrying. This whole situation started with a completely different student. We were having finals week and I had made the tests. On the day of that test at like 530am in the morning I get a call from a women. She said she was calling on behave of Landon Stewart (not his real name). She said she's his new foster mom and he was JUST removed from his last foster home wnf brought to hers around 3 in the morning. He was having issues sleeping and stressing and crying and mentioned a final exam he had in my class that day. She said she knows he won't be able to pass because my class starts at 7:30am and he didn't get any actual sleep until about 45 minutes ago. She was asking if I could possibly make an exception and he take his test another day. I said of course. I wasn't gonna set Landon up to fail. He had just gotten in his home at 3am. He was probably gonna have less than 4 hours of sleep. I was however under the impression she was gonna keep him home that day so I was surprised to see an exhausted Landon stumble into my classroom. The test was gonna take the entire class period so I asked Landon to step outside and told him to put an alarm on his phone and I was sending him down to the library to nap. It's up to him to get to his next class though. Landon took his final the following week after he adjusted a little and he got a B.

There's another girl in my class and we will call her Susy. Susy failed the entire class including the final. She has a 22 in my class and most of that is from her plagiarizing essays, not turning in work and not doing what she's supposed to do. Her mom came to speak to me and was angry she asked why her daughter failed this class. I explained and she said "Well MY DAUGHTER said there's a boy in your class who you let go down to library and sleep and he never has to do work or anything or even the test." I automatically knew who she was talking about and I said that's not true. She said "Are you calling my daughter a liar?" (Yes). I said "It was one specific situation that I can't tell you because it's not your business but he did take the exam. Just at a later time. She said even if her daughter is lying which she doesn't believe she is then I still admitted giving that student special treatment. She accused me of hating her daughter and I said I don't hate her. She got the grade she earned. Then she got hurtful like I said above and honestly made me cry. I thought I did the right thing but was I wrong for giving that boy special treatment?

@Lor why wouldn't they have my number? I'm their kids teacher? They have my number and my email and you can find it on our school portal. I give them a syllabus at the beginning of the year mainly for their parents that has my contact information. With my students in foster care their caseworkers get a copy.