I think that it was a very tough situation that the teacher was in and I try to put myself in that situation. Personally, I think that I would give that individual a deadline because although students should learn the importance of a deadline and that it isn't fair to everyone else to extend a deadline to someone else, but sometimes there are things in a child's life that may have occurred that takes predecent over having their homework done in class and it's very important that we don't turn kids off from doing their homework by encouraging them that it's important to get things done by deadlines but that we are always there to help and understand.