Teachers, principals, and and other authority figures are used to having students who miss school hand them notes—sometimes of dubious authenticity—explaining or excusing their absences.
Now a young girl named Kennedy has taken that tradition of handwritten, get-out-of-class messages to an entirely new level, by securing one from The Leader of the Free World.
As this news item explains, President Obama diverted from a town hall-style forum on health care to offer the young girl in Green Bay, Wisc., a note excusing her from school. Her father had jokingly alluded to his daughter’s absence from her classroom obligations, but Obama took him seriously, according to CNN’s account.
(Photos: Cory Dellenbach/Shawano Leader/AP)