This is book fair week at school. For those of you who don't know what that means, Scholastic Publishing brings tons of books to the school and the kids get to window shop with their class and then come home with their "wish list" to nag , beg , whine , ask their parents for money to purchase said wish list. (and there is lots of little "junk" like erasers, pencils, posters, etc also for sale at low prices to eliminate any chance at all the child will bring home change)
Last night D asked for money for a book or a few books, I don't really know since I wasn't really listening because my plan was to bring them to the book fair myself during parent hours so I could see what they were buying (in part because of the aforementioned junk and in part because of this incident) I thought the issue was resolved since I gave her no money to take to the book fair.
Then I got to parent teacher conferences and the teacher asked if I had heard about the check.
Ummm, no, what check?
Apparently unhappy with my answer of I will take you to the book fair, D decided to take matters into her own hands and brought a check to school. She had filled in the school name and had put 62 in the amount box. She took it to the book fair where she attempted to use it to purchase the book she wanted (for $11, so I think she was planning to pocket the rest)
Unfortunately for her, her plan was foiled when she handed the check to the PTO president who noted some "irregularities" with it and told her that she would put it in an envelope for me.
I can see the Christmas letter now.
"D is 7 years old and is really into reading, art, gymnastics and check fraud."
