First Trip to the Principle's Office

Here is what the letter from the school says:

"Mr. and Mrs. Wrenn,

Attached you will find a letter of apology Brandon has been asked to write his P.E. teacher, (name witheld). Brandon cursed very loudly in her class today. Please sign and return his letter so he can give it to (name witheld) on Wednesday. We have discussed with Brandon his poor choice of words and the consequences for using inappropriate language in school.

Thank you."

Imagine my horror opening this sealed envelope and reading this in front of the daycare staff (all previous "bad notes" have been open slips of paper). You see, the daycare staff now checks Brandon's backpack to see if he's been bad at school--if so, he is not allowed to play computer games and will even sit in the office until we pick him up, if the offense is bad enough. He told them he was good at school, and they didn't think a sealed envelope addressed to us was going to say otherwise. Anyhow, my first though was: oh, hell--he dropped the f-bomb. "Very loudly." Gee, where could he have heard this...?? We must have the rotten kid in the class--my sweet baby is the bad kid. We don't tolerate this behavior at home--not at all. So he finally told me what he said--"Oh, Hell!" Now, that wasn't nearly as bad as what I feared. Hell, they say that word all over the place on TV! Nonetheless, we had to punish him as if he dropped the f-bomb just so he knew that this behavior is absolutely unacceptable.