Great...

[feederband]

My oldest boy that is in 8th grade heard from somebody on Friday at school that there was no school today...Well we believed as well as half of the neighborhood..It is 1:50 pm and everyone is recieving a taped phone message from the schools saying that their kids missed school today...This is a small hood with a bunch of kids ...I would say over 30 kids stayed home today...


Parents are going to freak when they hear this I just hope they don't find out where the rumor started which was my son...My other two kids said they thought there was school today but my oldest was to convincing...

[Miss Mary]

This reminds me of the year I wrote down all days off and breaks on my calendar, taking them from the official school calendar. As we got closer to an in service day, I began asking the girls what they wanted to do. I wasn't working yet. They said they had tests or projects assigned that day! I pulled out the calendar and sure enough, it said an in service day. They asked a few teachers and they said - huh, we have an in service day (read, teacher meetings all day long)? No break for them. Other kids didn't even know about it. We were getting crazy answers back and didn't know what the story was.

I finally called school and the sec'y said I must have had an old calendar. She had a revised one and there was school that day. My girls grumbled about it and I joked it's a good thing we didn't go on a short trip (it was either a Friday or Monday). If we had, they would have played hookey!

I don't know how you get out of this one, I had the old calendar had my kids stayed home to prove why they wouldn't have been in school!

Good luck with that one!

Mary

[alicia-w]

you have to admit it's pretty inventive. it made me smile.

[Cookiely]

He watched Ferris Bueller too many times.