When I picked up DD from school today, I asked her (as always) how her day was and we had our daily after school chat. We got around to the speech and I started to ask her how it was when she asked, "You didn't send a note?" 
I told her I didn't and reminded her that I had previously told her I would not be sending a note. (to excuse her from the speech) She then told me that about 10 minutes after the group of kids that were excused from the speech had been escorted to the library, but before the speech started, someone came to her class and said she should have been on the list of excused students too and they needed to take her to the library. So she assumed I had called or sent an email.
I didn't and DH didn't.
I can't figure out how her name got on "the list." Yes, I did have some reservations about the original lesson plans from the DoE, but those were dealt with, so DH and I had no objections to the speech being shown to DD. For that matter, we never said word one to the school about our concerns, because we wanted to see how the dust settled before we made a decision. So we never made a peep to the school.
But someone certainly scrambled down to her room to make sure she didn't accidentally stay in class. I'm going to contact the school and tell them I'm not hot under the collar, but I'd like them to get to the bottom of why DD was on the list when we never made the request. They're usually sticklers about that sort of thing. Odd....
I told her I didn't and reminded her that I had previously told her I would not be sending a note. (to excuse her from the speech) She then told me that about 10 minutes after the group of kids that were excused from the speech had been escorted to the library, but before the speech started, someone came to her class and said she should have been on the list of excused students too and they needed to take her to the library. So she assumed I had called or sent an email.I didn't and DH didn't.
I can't figure out how her name got on "the list." Yes, I did have some reservations about the original lesson plans from the DoE, but those were dealt with, so DH and I had no objections to the speech being shown to DD. For that matter, we never said word one to the school about our concerns, because we wanted to see how the dust settled before we made a decision. So we never made a peep to the school. But someone certainly scrambled down to her room to make sure she didn't accidentally stay in class. I'm going to contact the school and tell them I'm not hot under the collar, but I'd like them to get to the bottom of why DD was on the list when we never made the request. They're usually sticklers about that sort of thing. Odd....
Of coruse, we all expect you to post what you find out
During the past week, we've had news crews at our school over this issue and have been featured prominently on the local and perhaps even national news. I have no idea why they picked us, except it's a new school and it photographs well. 
I said to a friend, "Don't you know the principal is holed up in her office just shaking her head and asking, 'Why ME?' What did I ever do to make them come to MY school? Why couldn't they go to _____ or ______? No, they have to come HERE. I bust my rear end and the school gets an exemplary rating every year, but do we get news crews out here for THAT? No.......THIS is what they show up for and report on!'" 
ITA! Please let us know what the mix up was.
