Avoid scaring the children? Please. As if they care. Even if they did, they could have just said, "The President has to leave on urgent business." Might have confused the kids for 5 minutes and then they would have gotten on with their day and forgotten about it by recess. Take it from me, I'm an elementary school teacher.
I do think this was a reasonable point. However, I lean towards sun_wolf's observation that they did it behind his back. There was a bit of a "holy shit, they really did it" look on his face.
It is so very confusing. That day changed a lot for me. My now husband got called up and for two weeks, it was trips to the armory every day and then he left on my birthday. I drove to my friend's house and got really drunk that night and not in a fun way. More sitting in the chair and staring at the ground.
The very reasonable explanation was to avoid scaring the children he was reading to.
Avoid scaring the children? Please. As if they care. Even if they did, they could have just said, "The President has to leave on urgent business." Might have confused the kids for 5 minutes and then they would have gotten on with their day and forgotten about it by recess. Take it from me, I'm an elementary school teacher.
I do think this was a reasonable point. However, I lean towards sun_wolf's observation that they did it behind his back. There was a bit of a "holy shit, they really did it" look on his face.
It is so very confusing. That day changed a lot for me. My now husband got called up and for two weeks, it was trips to the armory every day and then he left on my birthday. I drove to my friend's house and got really drunk that night and not in a fun way. More sitting in the chair and staring at the ground.