5th grader ‘shocked’ by Obama absence note

June 5, 2012 | World News | Written by

Washington, June 5: The fifth grader who was excused from class last week with a handwritten note from President Barack Obama himself, says he was simply “shocked” when the president began scribbling on a piece of paper.

Tyler Sullivan had skipped school on Friday to catch Obama’s speech at a Honeywell plant in Golden Valley, Minnesota, where his father, Ryan, gave introductory remarks.

The impromptu note from Obama, written on official White House stationery with the presidential seal, read: “Mr. Ackerman – Please excuse Tyler … he was with me! Barack Obama.”

“I felt really shocked and I just had a huge grin on my face,” the Politico quoted Sullivan as saying on CNN Monday morning.

“I was like, ‘Really? He’s writing me an excuse note? That’s really crazy,” he said. (ANI)