Little kid's handwritten note miraculously gets her home from school early

It was a cogent deceit.
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Heather Dockray
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Seven-year-olds may look sweet on the outside, but they're masters of deception.

On Monday, Charlie Dahu's 7-year-old daughter Rosabella decided she wanted to come home early from Sheldon Elementary School in Texas. So she decided to write a handwritten note and give it to her teacher. Despite Rosabella's decidedly elementary penmanship and the note's lack of a signature, the school actually released her home early on the bus.


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Take a look at how she writes bus (and don't blame her, Internet! She's only seven!)

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"Basically a second-grader tricked the school system and was able to go home on this note," Dahu told local news station KTRK. "You can clearly see she did not even spell the word bus." 

Dahu realized there was a problem when a concerned neighbor called him after Rosabella asked to use her bathroom. The neighbor kept Rosabella at home until her father arrived.

Dahu later went to the Sheldon Independent School District to determine the root of the problem.

"We are reviewing our training procedures to ensure that our after school grant program staff is properly trained in dismissal procedures," the school said in a statement.

It may not have been a masterful forgery job, but miraculously, it worked.   

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Heather Dockray

Heather was the Web Trends reporter at Mashable NYC. Prior to joining Mashable, Heather wrote regularly for UPROXX and GOOD Magazine, was published in The Daily Dot and VICE, and had her work featured in Entertainment Weekly, Jezebel, Mic, and Gawker. She loves small terrible dogs and responsible driving. Follow her on Twitter @wear_a_helmet.

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