Dear High School:

I know these awesome rules have been created by you for your entertainment. They make absolutely no sense and protect no one.

Today I received a phone call from the school stating that my son was in the nurses office and needed to come home. I immediately dropped what I was doing, slipped on my quickest shoe (the powder blue croc sandal) over my comfy pink fluffy house socks and jumped into the car heading down the street to pick him up.

When I got to the office, I was told that I could not bring him home unless I showed a picture ID. My wallet was left by my computer in my haste to get to the school. You still can't release him without my picture ID? Really? YOU called ME. The boy's sick. It was confirmed in your nurses office. How else would I know that this possible offspring of mine is waiting right there in the nurses office? But yet, I am unable to bring his germs to my home without proper identification.

Please don't be upset because I left him in your nurses office puking his little heart out with instructions to rub his regurgitatingly fresh hands all over your telephone receiver. School will be out in 2 hours, he'll take the bus home without my identification, and get all the kids on your bus sick, too. Because I'm not going to go back home and pick up an ID and come back to the office w/ my pink fluffy socks and powder blue crocs to prove to you this is my son after YOU called me and after I showed you a doctor's note YESTERDAY saying he had pneumonia. You remembered me. You even told me, this is a "technicality."

I guess I should thank you - now you get to clean up the puke because of your ID rule. Sweet.

Please excuse my son's absence tomorrow.

Sincerely,
The Mom