Why do we make excuses to God?
Thu, 04/21/2022 - 12:00am
Teacher Man is a 2005 memoir by Frank McCourt, ref lecting on his teaching experiences in New York high schools in the 1950s and 60s. One of its delightful chapters is entitled “The Excuse Note.” He knew that most excuse notes that came to him, allegedly from parents, were written instead by the boys and girls of McKee Vocational and Technical High School. Toward the end of a semester, Mr. McCourt typed a dozen of the excuse notes on a stencil and distributed them to the class.
