This was sent in from Chad to share as a Kid’s Perspective:

My son, Spencer, started Kindergarten two weeks ago. On Thursday he said to me “My teacher died………or she had a baby. I can’t remember which.”

I asked “What??? Are you sure?”

“Yes,” he said “she was not at school today.”

I asked him if he had a substitute. “Nope and my teacher wasn’t there today.” I knew better than to think the school was letting my son run around his room unsupervised.

Well I knew better than to think that she had a baby because she is way too old. I would think that the school would notify us if she passed away so we could break it to Spencer.

So on Friday after school I asked “Is your teacher back?” “Nope, I told you she died or was having a baby.” he replied.

So I decided to email the dead, baby having or died having a baby teacher. One of those combinations had to be right…………..right?!?!

My email said: “Spencer informed me yesterday that he had a new teacher because you either died or had a baby. If you had a baby – congratulations!! If you died – you will be missed. Hope all is well either way.”

Come to find out, Spencer’s teacher had just very sick for two days and had not had a baby nor had she died. Little did I know he had NO clue what a substitute was.