{"id":1177,"date":"2011-03-10T15:01:33","date_gmt":"2011-03-10T19:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/?p=1177"},"modified":"2011-03-10T15:03:18","modified_gmt":"2011-03-10T19:03:18","slug":"absence-makes-the-heart-beat-faster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/?p=1177","title":{"rendered":"Absence makes the heart beat faster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A slightly edited version of the email SOBUMD received this morning:\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Dear Parent or Guardian. This is an important message from Your Elementary School regarding an absence. Please contact your child&#8217;s school at 888-867-5309 to discuss the reason for the absence.<br \/>\nAttendance and active participation in class are crucial to a student&#8217;s academic achievement and to the opportunity to realize his or her full potential, from kindergarten through high school.<br \/>\nYour child, The Reigning Queen of Pink, was marked absent all day on 3\/10\/2011.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Since SOBUMD had personally dropped off said child, and had actually witnessed said child entering the school in question, you can imagine that this raised some concerns.\u00a0 She also received an automated call stating same, further elevating her blood pressure.<\/p>\n<p>Before I keep you in further suspense, there was a substitute teacher today.\u00a0 She managed to check the wrong box.\u00a0 No emergencies.<\/p>\n<p>But here\u2019s a difference between myself and SOBUMD:\u00a0 While she did, in fact, have a minor cardiac event, she calmly called the school and sorted things out.\u00a0 She did not panic, fly off the handle, or endanger anyone.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m very glad that she\u2019s home with the kids.\u00a0 And not, for example, me.\u00a0 Because I might have been at the school before the automatic call had finished speaking, swords drawn, asking impolite questions of well meaning people and talking very quickly.\u00a0 Someone could have gotten hurt.\u00a0 Probably me, really, but that\u2019s not the point.\u00a0 The point is that SOBUMD is very level headed.\u00a0 And I\u2019m very glad of this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attendance and active participation in class are crucial to a student&#8217;s academic achievement and to the opportunity to realize his or her full potential, from kindergarten through high school.  Your child, The Reigning Queen of Pink, was marked absent all day today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[40,10,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1177"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1180,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177\/revisions\/1180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}