A mom’s absence note for her daughter for the day after a Taylor Swift concert is going viral, and Swifties will immediately understand why
Going to a Taylor Swift concert is a big deal—especially in 2023 slash the age of the Eras tour. Swift puts on one heck of a show—a three-hour, nonstop celebration of her entire career to date, featuring 44 songs that span every one of her albums, or Eras, as Swifties will know. For younger fans, experiencing all that excitement (plus being out way past bedtime) means there’s only one option if the concert falls on a school night: call out of class the next day.
That’s exactly what Karen Vladeck did for her first-grade daughter after the pair was lucky enough to snag some Swift tickets for a Sunday night show in Houston. But Vladeck didn’t just write her daughter an absence note for school. She kicked things up a notch and wrote the note with a ton of hidden references to Swift’s songs—just like the Easter eggs Swift herself is known to hide for fans.
“Dear Reader [Ms. Parks], I’m writing to let you know that Maddie won’t be in school on 4/24 because she is going to the Taylor Swift concert in Houston,” Vladeck wrote. “I hope missing school doesn’t ruin her otherwise stellar Reputation, but she begged me to go and maybe I Should Have Said No but I didn’t want to be Mean. So It Goes…Anyway, I hope this doesn’t leave any Bad Blood between you and Maddie and that things for the rest of the year are not Treacherous.”
Vladeck ended her note with this message: “I know I Did Something Bad and I promise this will be The Last Time she has an unexcused absence before the Cruel Summer starts. Forever & Always, -Karen Vladeck.”
She then shared a screenshot of the email to Twitter because let’s be honest—it’s way too good not to share with the world.
Here’s hoping my daughter’s 1st grade teacher is a Swiftie pic.twitter.com/6Izg9dpadQ
— KSV (@KSVesq) April 4, 2023
And the responses didn’t disappoint, either.
Eh, it’s just one day of school; I’m sure the teacher can Shake It Off.
— Twowackykids (@twowackykids) April 4, 2023
She really missed out by not responding You Need to Calm Down
— Childers (@mchilders07) April 5, 2023
Maybe she responds with “Here’s the homework she’ll have to make up. Look What You Made Me Do.”
— Matt Marcotte (@MattMarcotte) April 4, 2023
Vladeck also shared that her husband didn’t find the joke nearly as funny as she did, but luckily, her daughter’s teacher did.
MS PARKS GETS IT pic.twitter.com/RI6MD3Wavj
— KSV (@KSVesq) April 4, 2023
