Perhaps she was back in Washington because she had school the next day??
Do you honestly think that any school administration would tell a kid they can’t do a makeup test because their father, the President of the US is giving a major speech.
Educators are arrogant and self righteous, but not that much.
We home schooled our kids, otherwise, I would have looked for excuses to buck their little fiefdoms. It’s in my blood.
(my parents sent me to a catholic elementary school. I was a major troublemaker and didn’t take any garbage from the old penguins, one of whom was sent to jail a few years later for child abuse.)
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