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A six-year-old boy forged a dismissal note with highlighter pen on finger painting paper to get out of an after-school program – and his school accepted it.




Gannon Farley, from Middleboro, Massachusetts, was fed up with playing with Lego at his day care and wanted to go home to play on his Wii instead. So the Henry B. Burkland Elementary School first-grader forged a handwritten note in fluorescent yellow marker, which said: ‘Dery [dear] Mrs. Trotty [Trottier]. Gannon is not going to the prgrogm [program].’


The secretary tried to call an old telephone number the school had listed for Gannon’s mother, Amie Nay, but could not get through. After leaving a voice message, the school sent the six-year-old home. He rode the bus by himself to an empty house. Nay had no idea Gannon had been sent home until she received a call from the school coordinator saying her son had not turned up to his after school program.

For hours the panic-stricken mother-of-three searched for him until a neighbour called to say he was with her. Nay is furious that her son's school would put his life in danger and accept a note that had been written by a child. 'I looked at it and I said to the principal, "you're kidding me right, really? This was accepted as a legitimate note?"' Nay told NECN.com. 'It terrifies me to think that he managed to outsmart your administration.'

The school claims the incident was investigated but the secretary who dismissed Gannon remains at the institute. 'She's still employed,' Nay told NECN. 'I don't feel that appropriate action has been taken.'

Gannon says he has learned his lesson and will not be forging any more notes. ‘I lied. I was not really thinking anything,' he said. I was just writing the note, I was focusing on writing the note. ‘



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