For as long as there have been teachers, students have had excuses: My dog ate my homework. My computer crashed. I had football practice.<\/p>\n
But 11-year-old Tyler Sullivan<\/strong> of Minnesota isn\u2019t one to make excuses. He\u2019s a good kid: he finishes his work after playing quarterback, his computer is well maintained, and his dog doesn\u2019t like paper.<\/p>\n \u201cIf I was president I would say no more smoking, no more tobacco, and no more drugs,\u201d said Sullivan<\/strong>.<\/p>\n But on Friday, Sullivan<\/strong> skipped school for the first time in his life, to meet President Barack Obama<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Obama<\/strong> was in town visiting the Honeywell facility in Golden Valley, Minn.<\/p>\n Tyler\u2019s<\/strong> father, Ryan<\/strong>, had introduced Obama<\/strong> before his speech at Honeywell, and Obama approached the family after the speech.<\/p>\n \u201cFirst I said, \u2018Hi, Mr. President.\u2019 Then he says, \u2018Hi Tyler<\/strong>, you must be out of school then,\u2019\u201d said Tyler<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Obama<\/strong> realized Tyler<\/strong> was skipping school, and asked an aide for a pen and a card with presidential letterhead.<\/p>\n \u201cDo you want me to write an excuse note? What\u2019s your teacher\u2019s name?\u201d Tyler<\/strong> remembered. \u201cAnd I say, \u2018Mr. Ackerman.\u2019 And he writes, \u2018Please excuse Tyler<\/strong>. He was with me. Barack Obama<\/strong>, the president.\u201d Tyler<\/strong> has framed the note.<\/p>\n \u201cPretty cool \u2013 and it\u2019s like oh, I\u2019m famous. It\u2019s really cool,\u201d Tyler<\/strong> said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For as long as there have been teachers, students have had excuses: My dog ate my homework. My computer crashed. I had football practice. But 11-year-old Tyler Sullivan of Minnesota isn\u2019t one to make excuses. He\u2019s a good kid: he finishes his work after playing quarterback, his computer is well maintained, and his dog doesn\u2019t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}