【Poor Things】

Sometimes as a kid you need to miss school to do Poor Thingsmore important things, like visit The Wizarding World of Harry Potter.

After missing just three days of school to attend an extremely important theme park, this kid was placed on a student attendance behavioral improvement plan, because the world is cruel and school is the worst.

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The boy's mother was forced to fill out some annoying paperwork after the absence, so she decided to use some magical words to get her kid off the hook from any wrong doing.

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My nephew missed 3 days of school to go to The Wizarding World of Harry Potter. Afterward, the school made my sister fill out this "attendance behavior improvement" plan. from funny

In the form the mother explains that her child missed school because he was attending the theme park, and when asked for specifics, she replies, "student was learning defense against the dark arts."

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The next question asks what the school, child and parents could do in order to prevent this from happening in the future, so she used some Harry Potter wit to show that the trip was very important for his education.

"No concern anymore. He passed his O.W.Ls and N.E.W.T.s," she wrote.

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For those unfamiliar with the Harry Potter series, O.W.L (Ordinary Wizarding Level) and N.E.W.T.s (Nastily Exhausting Wizarding Test) are the equivalent to standardized testing in the real world.

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