Education

‘Gannon Is Not Going To The Prgrogm’: 6 Year Old Outsmarts School With Forged Note

Public education might have just jumped the shark.

Gannon Farley, a first grader from Middleboro, Massachusetts, was apparently like most first graders in that he was sick of being stuck at school for hours on end and just wanted to go home to play with his Wii. However, unlike most first graders, Farley apparently possessed such an audacious capacity for deceit that he was able to fool a school administrator into actually letting him get out of an after-school program and leave school early…with a note written in fluorescent yellow marker.

Yes, that’s right. Apparently this convinced a school administrator:

First Grader Gannon Farley Outwits His School With Handwritten Misspelled NoteFor those who can’t tell, the note reads: “Dery Mrs. Trotty, Gannon is not going to the prgrogm.”

First Grader Gannon Farley Outwits His School With Handwritten Misspelled Note

Gannon Farley, forgery artist

Shockingly, this brilliant forgery attracted some suspicion. However, when the school failed to reach Farley’s mother, they apparently decided it was perfectly alright to just take it on faith that this note, written in marker and with misspellings no parent could possibly have made, was genuine.

Unfortunately for them, when Farley’s mother, Amie Nay, did hear that her son had failed to show up for his after school program, she panicked and spent hours searching for him in terror until a neighbor called to report that the little six year old was with her. And to no one’s surprise, Nay is now hopping mad at school administrators for being duped by a six year old child.

First Grader Gannon Farley Outwits His School With Handwritten Misspelled Note

Amie Nay, Gannon Farley's mother

The Daily Mail reports:

Nay is furious that her son’s school would put his life in danger and accept a note that had been written by a child.

“I looked at it and I said to the principal, ‘you’re kidding me right, really? This was accepted as a legitimate note?”‘ Nay told NECN.com.

“It terrifies me to think that he managed to outsmart your administration.”

The school claims the incident was investigated but the secretary who dismissed Gannon remains at the institute.

“She’s still employed,” Nay told NECN. “I don’t feel that appropriate action has been taken.”

Gannon, meanwhile, says he won’t be pulling this stunt again, claiming he “wasn’t thinking anything” when he wrote the note. At the risk of being flippant, one seriously doubts that a six-year-old has the impulse control necessary to think before doing something like this – that’s why schools have adults who can spot this behavior in the first place.

First Grader Gannon Farley Outwits His School With Handwritten Misspelled Note

Gannon Farley, who is likely seriously grounded

This video report, linked by the Daily Mail and courtesy of Fox News, explains the entire mess in excruciating detail:

Comments (144)

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  • RestoreCapitalism
    Posted on June 2, 2012 at 12:58am

    Oh crap, it’s another future president getting started practicing his career skills.

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    • KevINtampa
      Posted on June 2, 2012 at 1:22am

      Cass Sunstein says this is exactly why we need to start putting prison fences up around schools. Just think, if we had Homeland Security guards at the gates this kid never would have been able to leave the safe combines of his school.

      Obviously the local SROs are not capable of maintaining the security of these children.This womans terror wouldn‘t have happened and it’s the exact reason we need federal officers patrolling the nations schools.

      I’m starting to understand how progressive logic works. Forward on Comrade. Forward on.

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    • GETLIFE
      Posted on June 2, 2012 at 5:02am

      In socialist France, school fences and locked doors are to keep parents OUT. Really no kidding. The overall atmosphere in schools is “parents not allowed– just trust us, whatever we do here is for your child’s and YOUR own good.” Parents are taught just to leave it alone and do as they are told. Then when there is a problem with a child– of course it is the parent’s fault for not taking an interest.

      First we tried private school– you could actually walk onto school grounds to pick up your child!
      Then we homeschooled. Much MUCH better.

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    • lukerw
      Posted on June 2, 2012 at 3:03pm

      He’s working upon his Birth Certificate, now!

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    • pavepaws
      Posted on June 2, 2012 at 3:36pm

      The school must have thought the mother had graduated from there.

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    • Thevoice
      Posted on June 2, 2012 at 5:28pm

      Obama better take this kids name down and put it in his “Truth squad” data base..(This is the Overlords at the truth squad) … O..My ..we wouldn’t want maybe the last person growing up in America that will use their common sense, to escape into the masses and contaminate the others. Find this child and keep a eye on him.The use of your common sense especially to trick the stupid authority must be eradicated. If this child again shows any sign of individual thought ..quickly aleart the Chairman. And keep the armed drone survalance up 24 hours around this childs home, school and playground.We may need to act quickly..

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    • Jaycen
      Posted on June 3, 2012 at 12:59am

      If Barack Obama had a son, he would look like Gannon Farley.

      Justice for Farley!

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    • RonmeyPaulBotsrOdd
      Posted on June 3, 2012 at 12:31pm

      Ever wonder why the majority of educators, lawyers, judges, sociologists, psychologists, psychiatrists, many in the counseling fields/health professionals and many more that impact your life are liberal. The libs figured it out long ago…control the children via education. Hit the colleges first and work the way down.
      This infestation impacts everything you do and believe….now keep posting stupid crap here versus organizing against this heavy inculcated in education machine. End lawyers (notorious to compromise with the competition or lie to get a win) controlling our laws, teachers controlling our children and shut down scientists/docs that are pushing crap.
      Why did not one person speak about Nancy Sebring having her sister work in the same Des Moines School district – because now nepotism is acceptable, where was the tea party to slam this liberal unethical skank?
      Probably posting here at The Blaze….

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    • Coredestroy
      Posted on June 3, 2012 at 1:23pm

      As a public school teacher, I have seen some pretty scary examples of parents’ writing skills. Although I often double check the really bad ones (and get a lot of flack for doing so), I am amazed at how many are real. Some misspell their own kids’ names, while others write in crayon.

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    • mtsnj
      Posted on June 3, 2012 at 2:00pm

      The only difference is he was born here.

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    • ginger ghent
      Posted on June 3, 2012 at 5:28pm

      The “teachers” need to return to school and perhaps take a few courses on common sense.
      ya’get what ya; deserve…if parents would be involved they would know the teachers and whether or not they are any good..course most of the parents aren;t any better.

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  • logan54
    Posted on June 2, 2012 at 12:48am

    I hate to play devil’s advocate, but suppose the adult did write that letter and was suffering from dyslexia/some other ailment that they had to write that way. In this litiguous society, they’d end up suing the school for humiliation and having no respect for persons with disability. Part of the problem we will have with a society whose mentality is to sue for ridiculous amounts for perceived slights.

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    • HowardSternIsABigot
      Posted on June 2, 2012 at 10:49am

      it does look like ;lmy typing..

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    • TEXASGRANNY73
      Posted on June 2, 2012 at 11:17am

      @HowardSternbigot It looks like a lot of spelling on the Blaze by both those who write the columns and those who comment. Most of those who comment do not want to learn and become very upset if corrected.

       
    • JediKnight
      Posted on June 2, 2012 at 1:14pm

      Then it would‘ve been in the school’s best interest to make sure they got a hold of the mother before releasing the kid.

      When in doubt, make sure you get a hold of a parent or other adult.

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    • hillbillyinny
      Posted on June 2, 2012 at 6:33pm

      @ TEXASGRANNY73

      This is just the writing of an adult who was taught reading and writing using the Whole Language program as developed in the late 80‘s early 90’s in Oneonta NY, SUNY by name! This program purports that students learn to write by writing–spelling is not important, grammer is not important, page setup is not important–just express yourself and get an “A” for content!

      However, someone has to READ the writing to determine the content, and if you have ever read an examination booklet (a “blue book” used for college essay exams), you will know that Whole Language is failing the students! I used to be an office manager in the Sociology department in a large Eastern Univeristy. Professors would bring these booklets to me or my assistant to see if we could read what a student had written. I guess the theory was, if we could read the professors’ writings, we could read anything! However, much of what was penned by high school graduates made no sense and even if we struggled through to determine content, it had NO CONTENT, therefore was failed (at least at that Augustinian (honest) university!

      Maybe that is why most college exams today are multiple choice where you only have to fill in a dot!

      After I moved to NY, I realized I knew the retired Chair of the department that developed Whole Language learning. I had to ask him, “WHAT WHERE YOU THINKING”?

      “Brilliance” teaching absurdity, or absurdity trying to replicate brilliance?

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    • bobbiejean
      Posted on June 3, 2012 at 7:30pm

      @Logan54 Good reply in seeing this from another angle. I had thought this really could have been
      written by an adult. In education today, a lot of students are promoted to the next grade, even when
      they didn’t master the skills from the classes taught in their current grade. If the adult NEVER wrote letters, checks, took down phone messages etc., perhaps the only writing instrument was a crayon.
      Hey! It’s possible.

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  • logan54
    Posted on June 2, 2012 at 12:43am

    I hate to play devil’s advocate in this case…but hear me out. Suppose an adult did write that for their child, and he/she was suffering from dyslexia or something else that made it difficult for them to write and spell normally. In todays litiguous society, that parent would then sue the school for being discriminatory against them, subjecting them to undue embarrassment, etc etc. It’s bound to be a problem to be ultra worried about offending someone when the initial reaction is always to sue.

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    • rickc34
      Posted on June 2, 2012 at 10:54am

      Well then there is still another way to look at it. This little kid is smarter than the teachers maybe he should be teaching them.

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  • Dallasmarine
    Posted on June 2, 2012 at 12:34am

    That my friends was no Jedi mind trick! That was our tax dollars at work and the great insight of the teachers unions.

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    • OuttheSocialist
      Posted on June 2, 2012 at 4:27am

      This is why we need to raise the teacher’s pay. Everyone knows our kids get better quality teachers with more money. The Democrats have been telling us this for years and it is fine time we listen. Every problem we face today is because of a lack money.
      Obama knows that if we spend another $5 trillion dollars, we can fix this world we live in.

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    • circleDwagons
      Posted on June 2, 2012 at 7:09am

      looks like this kid is ready to work at the Treasury

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    • mama6
      Posted on June 2, 2012 at 9:00am

      @outthesocialist – We don‘t need to raise the teacher’s pay!!!! We need to eliminate the Dept. of Education so there can be competition in schools!!! Get rid of unions, therefore eliminating tenure, thereby demanding quality performance from the teachers!!!! By the way, give the 6 yr. old some credit!! Kids are smart but they’re also born with the ability to lie. He probably saw it on a kid‘s movie or maybe a doctor’s excuse & realized he could do it too!!!!

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    • John Moser
      Posted on June 2, 2012 at 11:18am

      Mama6, your sarcasm detector is on the fritz.

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  • wakeus_com
    Posted on June 2, 2012 at 12:24am

    Honestly, educated people, even semi-educated people, who see this report, or read about it, cannot fathom how stupid some parents are. It blows me away almost daily. I abhor it, but I can understand how Sanger and the liberal baby killers had their Nazi-esque sterilization dreams coming from. Too bad they slaughter their own voters.

    However, this is the stupidity of the school, no question.

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  • Conservative AMERICA
    Posted on June 2, 2012 at 12:21am

    LOL! definitely more convincing than Barry Soetoros latest birth certificate!

    Report Post » Conservative AMERICA  
  • TJexcite
    Posted on June 2, 2012 at 12:13am

    No wondder some peopleses take the pciture of a gun as if the 6 yeasr old will beocme the biggest massss murdders as real.

    Spelling does not count.

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  • ozz
    Posted on June 2, 2012 at 12:11am

    The six year old is right. He should be at home with mom. Not at some lame state indoctrination after school program. Better yet mom should be home schooling her child instead of the state if she loves him. Moms working and shirking their responsibility of raising our youth and providing a solid neighborhood community is the root of much of what is wrong with our youth and our society.

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    • conservativewoman
      Posted on June 2, 2012 at 2:11am

      @OZZ
      You are so right. After-school programs are miserable places for kids. Most of them have very little supervision and the kids just end up fighting with each other.

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  • BOMUSTGO
    Posted on June 2, 2012 at 12:10am

    Future President!

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  • trappedinwv
    Posted on June 1, 2012 at 11:53pm

    Oh boy is that bad. I will say this, as a former police officer, about a third of the people I ran into couldn’t spell much better. I wouldn’t be surprised if these secretaries see notes like this all the time. Especially from parents of recent northern traveling voters for the democratic party.

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  • Brentley
    Posted on June 1, 2012 at 11:48pm

    School administration should all be FIRED. Thinking that this is a good reason to bring back the NEW ENGLAND PRIMER as the required method for learning.

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  • FEMALL
    Posted on June 1, 2012 at 11:31pm

    Dery Skool Bord,

    U’ve ben survd

    Gannons lawyur

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  • Ringo_Langly
    Posted on June 1, 2012 at 11:23pm

    The after school prgrogm was going to the YMCA.

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    • afishfarted
      Posted on June 1, 2012 at 11:40pm

      I;m thinkin’ the kid is actually smarter than the indoctrinated administration

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    • The-Monk
      Posted on June 2, 2012 at 12:40am

      The Sociacommiarxist have changed the name to the YGCA….

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  • R.A. Bullseye
    Posted on June 1, 2012 at 11:20pm

    I am having a hard time believing this….if it is true than we have some serious problems.

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  • Netsurfer2
    Posted on June 1, 2012 at 11:16pm

    That’s your government led education! LOL! Like the blind leading the blind!

    LOL! Next O‘bummer will be asking you if you really need it or even more so in making sure that you don’t get a good education!

    I always learned that you can’t control the intelligent, but you can when they are not educated!

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  • DetritusScreener
    Posted on June 1, 2012 at 10:57pm

    OMG! Gannon is the same kid that forged Obama’s Berth Cirtificate!!! This kid is a genius. He is going to have a great career in Democratic politics.

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  • The-Monk
    Posted on June 1, 2012 at 10:54pm

    Gannon was able to get away with it because he spells at the same level as this teacher.

    That’s Massachusetts…..

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  • lukerw
    Posted on June 1, 2012 at 10:53pm

    Ah… the Obama Medal for Communication… goes to Gannon…

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  • lawrench
    Posted on June 1, 2012 at 10:49pm

    I guess this is what you get when you spend so much per child for a public school system. Another reason to take the school systems back to the late 1800′s and have schools totally controlled by the local community. If parents had control of the schools in their communities and take the federal government out, it could not get worse than it is now.

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  • abbygirl1994
    Posted on June 1, 2012 at 10:48pm

    The little bugger pulled a fast one.. but really.. the school system was S T U P I D… Must of been a liberal democrat??

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  • spfoam1
    Posted on June 1, 2012 at 10:47pm

    The handwriting was a clear indication that the parent was a democrat and a product of the public school system. They risked offending a fellow democrat by suggesting the note may have written by a 1st grader.

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  • WAKEUPUSA2012
    Posted on June 1, 2012 at 10:43pm

    This is what the blaze covers?

    When will the Blaze run a story on Bilderberg 2012? Which is going on right now in Chantilly VA.

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/may/30/bilderberg-2012-technocrats-are-rising

    http://www.infowars.com/bilderberg2012/

    Neocons and liberals alike can not deny it anymore. The real news from the BLAZE needs to cover this. But I bet they wont. Cause Beck is a sell out.

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  • valleyfever
    Posted on June 1, 2012 at 10:43pm

    Antoher example of the fine American public school system !

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  • Exrepublisheep
    Posted on June 1, 2012 at 10:43pm

    I’ve seen enough episodes of “Cops” to believe some parents really DO write like that.

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  • wcoastpi
    Posted on June 1, 2012 at 10:42pm

    Perhaps the Obama Administration should hire him.

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    • Redwood Elf
      Posted on June 1, 2012 at 10:50pm

      This kid would increase their skillset by around 50% I would think.

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