Texas mom pens viral absence letter to daughter’s teacher for Taylor Swift concert

AUSTIN, Texas – An Austin girl’s letter to her daughter’s instructor asking for her to be excused from faculty for a Taylor Swift live performance goes viral. 

Karen Vladeck wrote the skillfully worded letter, which contains various music titles from the “Midnights” singer/songwriter, to her daughter Maddie’s instructor. 

She later posted it to Twitter, saying “Here is hoping my daughter’s 1st grade instructor is a Swiftie,” the place it has been retweeted over 220 instances and considered about 351.1 thousand instances.

The award-winning artist is presently on her multi-city cross-country “The Eras Tour”, which is scheduled to cease in Houston for 3 nights at NRG Stadium subsequent weekend.

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Vladeck sits down with FOX 7 Austin’s John Krinjak to speak about how the letter took place.

JOHN KRINJAK: So that you wrote to your daughter’s first grade instructor, Ms. Parks, I perceive, so she will be excused from class for the Taylor Swift live performance in Houston. 
You stated, “I hope lacking faculty does not break her in any other case stellar Popularity. However she begged me to go, and possibly I Ought to Have Mentioned No. However I did not wish to be Imply. So It Goes…” And that is just some of them. How did you give you this?

KAREN VLADECK: So I believe someplace in my unconscious it dated again to when my husband, who’s a lifelong New Yorker earlier than we moved to Texas and is a diehard Mets fan, he used to go to opening day on the Mets yearly, and his dad used to put in writing him a observe that stated, Steven cannot go to highschool at this time. He has to see the physician. And within the late eighties, early nineties, there was a really well-known pitcher on the Mets named the Physician. And so this was form of like a household folklore story that we had in our family. And I assumed, okay, nicely, that is issues for a form of enjoyable motive to overlook faculty, so why do not I keep on our custom and write a enjoyable observe? And I simply began writing and it simply stored going.

JOHN KRINJAK: A household “folklore” story. I see what you probably did there. The letter continues. “I hope this does not depart any Dangerous Blood between you and Maddie and that issues for the remainder of the yr should not Treacherous. I do know I Did One thing Dangerous, and I promise this will likely be The Final Time she has an unexcused absence earlier than the Merciless Summer time begins.” So, folks love this. Greater than 350,000 folks have considered the letter on Twitter. Are you blown away by that? What sort of response have you ever gotten?

KAREN VLADECK: Yeah, it is actually humorous. I believe it is a type of issues that, you already know, that is the primary time that one in every of my, you already know, I have been on Twitter for a very long time. And I believe that there is all the time been interactions on Twitter and it is all the time I all the time scratch my head somewhat bit about what goes viral and what does not. However when the At this time present referred to as, I stated, Oh, wow, this actually, actually received picked up. Proper? And I believe truthfully, proper now, there was a lot within the information whether or not it is Nashville or the issues which are occurring regionally in Texas and in Austin. Folks simply actually form of gripped on to what’s basically a really candy, harmless story. You understand, I have not actually gotten any unfavourable suggestions from it aside from a pair individuals who wish to say, “Oh, I am unable to imagine you are going to let your daughter miss faculty for a Taylor Swift live performance.” To which my response is she’s seven years outdated and training occurs out and in of the classroom.

JOHN KRINJAK: That there is all the time going to be haters. So I believe what we’re questioning is how did Ms. Parks react? Was she. Sure. Did she Shake It Off? Did she have hassle? What did she say?

KAREN VLADECK: She shook it off. She wrote again. So my concern and that is what I believe is humorous should you look inside the tweet thread. So I truly did not inform my husband that I used to be going to ship this electronic mail. I simply copied him on it. And he instantly wrote again, “Oh my God, Karen”, As in, you already know, what have you ever performed? And inside I imply, one minute Ms. Parks wrote again in all caps, This made my whole day. So fortunately, she’s additionally a Swiftie, and he or she instantly received it. Yeah.

JOHN KRINJAK: Like it. Nicely, Karen, thanks for brightening our days with this. I believe you are proper. I believe that is the sort of factor we want proper now. Thanks for becoming a member of us. And I hope you guys have a lot enjoyable on the live performance. We admire it.

KAREN VLADECK: Thanks a lot for having me. I admire it.