Sneaky Kids

For those of you who don't know, I teach kindergarten. It is a very interesting group of children, I have a very wild group this year. I have never meet so many children who just don't care, and that their parents don't care either.
Well, I always knew kids were sneaky, but this group is particularly good at it. Today I was casually talking to a parent and to end the conversation I said "well, I look forward to seeing you on Monday for conferences." This mom stopped and gave me a very puzzled look, and I reminded her about the conference and thanked her for returning the form saying she would attend. She looked at me more puzzled. She explained that she never signed a permission form much less even saw one. She said her daughter empties her folder before she gets a chance to look in it and whenever she looks in it, it is empty. (This explains why homework is never done, something that was going to be talked about at the conference.) I informed the mom I would send home a permission form again the next day.
When I got back to the classroom I looked at the returned forms and found the one from this particular student. Sure enough it had "yes, I will be attending" checked, and it had a date. The date was more interesting... in about 5-7 year old handwriting it said 11/03/08/2008. Then I realized there was no signature. I checked them off quickly that morning as I received them, I guess I wasn't looking at the signature section to carefully. So, I am concluding that Ms. Sneaky Pants returned this on her own. She has been in some trouble lately and I believe to avoid getting in trouble at home she takes my notes out before mom and dad see them. She is smart and can read, but I am amazed that she was smart enough to keep the top half, check yes, and date it. Her parents need to watch out, once this girl masters their writing they won't know anything that is happening. I have decided emailing and calling her parents will be best in the future.
Aren't kids so cute???