“Wrong! Your response is wrong.”

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“We all make mistakes.”

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“We learn from our mistakes.”

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“Teachers also should learn from a parent’s mistake.”

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Dear Teacher:Please excuse Jane on Monday and Tuesday and Wednesday. She had an absent tooth.

Source: Diana & Emile Lize (1980). Dear TeacherHamilton Ontario: Potlatch Publications

Dear Teacher:The basement of our house got flooded where the children slept so they had to be evaporated

Source: Diana & Emile Lize (1980). Dear TeacherHamilton Ontario: Potlatch Publications

Dear Teacher:I am sorry Cathy was not at school on Friday as it was my day off work so I took her to the fair along with her brother and sister. I had to treat them all equal or if I didn’t there would have been an awful squabble.Source: Diana & Emile Lize (1980). Dear TeacherHamilton Ontario: Potlatch Publications

Dear Teacher:Cheryl has been away from school because of childbirth.

Source: Diana & Emile Lize (1980). Dear TeacherHamilton Ontario: Potlatch Publications

Dear Teacher:Diana was away Friday afternoon because she was sick and had craps in her stomach.

Source: Diana & Emile Lize (1980). Dear TeacherHamilton Ontario: Potlatch Publications

Dear Teacher:Lynda was away as she had a stripe infection and a swallon gland.

Source: Diana & Emile Lize (1980). Dear TeacherHamilton Ontario: Potlatch Publications

Dear Teacher:Anne did not do her homework because I couldn’t understand it.

Source: Diana & Emile Lize (1980). Dear TeacherHamilton Ontario: Potlatch Publications