If he could think of a better plan, he wouldn't be ashamed of his grades

[dixiehack]

So what did you do to hide a bad report card? Ever try a fake kidnapping?

http://blog.al.com/breaking/2009/09/boy_fakes_kidnapping_to_shed_b.html

HUNTSVILLE, AL -- An 11-year-old boy faked his kidnapping Friday to avoid bringing home his bad report card, Huntsville police said.
The Ed White Middle School student claimed a man in a red, beat-up car grabbed him after school at the intersection of Trail Ridge and Grizzard roads and forced him into the vehicle.

"I'm going to take you somewhere and kill you," the boy claimed the man said. The boy also said the man had a pistol.

The boy then claimed to have jumped from the vehicle - without his bookbag, which contained the report card - and ran to his grandparents' house.

That's when the boy confessed to making the whole thing up to cover for his bad grades. His grandfather called police to apologize and report the boy's story.

Sgt. Mark Roberts said police were suspicious of the boy when he was able to "escape" with his band instrument, but not his bookbag.

Police were notified of a possible kidnapping about 4:20 p.m., but it is unclear who reported it.

Roberts said the boy faces no charges at this time.

The whereabouts of the bookbag and report card are unknown.

 

[Buck]

No child left behind, but sometimes bookbags and report cards left behind.

 

[CentralIllinoisan]

That last line slays me.

 

[Killick]

I once forged an entire gradecard. And got away with it. All to cover the D I got in religion. Go figure. ;D

 

[Pilot]

Oh, I got some BAD grades in religion. I damn near flunked one year because I got a poor coloring grade and almost always got awful grades in conduct. Something about asking a lot of questions (many of which admittedly I asked to be a pain in the ass)

My teachers always thought I'd either end up a great advocate for the church or Satan's right hand man. Turns out, I'm mostly apathetic.

 

[Double J]

There are places where report cards are issued in mid-September??

Holy crap. My kids just went back to school a week ago Tuesday.

 

[Wenders]

There are places where report cards are issued in mid-September??

Holy crap. My kids just went back to school a week ago Tuesday.

I never went to a school that started after Aug. 20 because school had to be out and done by May 15 at the very latest. If they split up their semesters into three six week periods instead of two nine week periods, then it's entirely plausible that he was bringing home his first report card.

 

[Bodie_Broadus]

Who the hell takes a class in religion? Was that in college?

 

[Double J]

There are places where report cards are issued in mid-September??

Holy crap. My kids just went back to school a week ago Tuesday.

I never went to a school that started after Aug. 20 because school had to be out and done by May 15 at the very latest. If they split up their semesters into three six week periods instead of two nine week periods, then it's entirely plausible that he was bringing home his first report card.

Hmmmm, that's interesting. But I'm curious, Wenders, why did school have to be finished by May 15?

 

[Pilot]

Who the hell takes a class in religion? Was that in college?

We had it from first grade to eighth. I think officially it was an off hour, twice a week. There were always a couple kids that didn't go and did something else (what, I have no idea), but in our tiny very German catholic town no one batted an eye.

 

[Wenders]

There are places where report cards are issued in mid-September??

Holy crap. My kids just went back to school a week ago Tuesday.

I never went to a school that started after Aug. 20 because school had to be out and done by May 15 at the very latest. If they split up their semesters into three six week periods instead of two nine week periods, then it's entirely plausible that he was bringing home his first report card.

Hmmmm, that's interesting. But I'm curious, Wenders, why did school have to be finished by May 15?

I went to a very rural high school in Kansas and they had to get the farm kids home so they could be ready for wheat harvest and all of the rest of the stuff they do in the summer. Almost no school in the rural parts of Kansas really went past mid-May for that reason.