I should have posted this here weeks ago, but people still seem to enjoy it:

To Whom It May Concern,

My son was absent from school today (December 18, 2015). We were not able to sleep until approximately 0300 hours, and XXXXX was in no condition to attend class. The reason for the disruption in our schedule was the opening night of Star Wars: The Force Awakens .

Much to my dismay, in the past, when I have written XXXXX excuse notes for such critically mandatory cultural events, XXXXX Elementary has docked him with /unexcused/ absences. I want to ensure that this miscarriage of justice does not occur again.

As practicing Jedi, I request that XXXXX Elementary respect our religious freedoms. The Jedi Church (www.jedichurch.org) is an officially recognized religion in the United Kingdom (the one nation where knights are still honored). The opening of the film, that essentially saved our faith, is clearly a high holiday in the calendar of our religion. XXXXX must be granted a properly excused absence in order to avoid abrogating our Constitutional rights, in the same manner that other religious orders are permitted to observe their holy days.

Thank you,

Dee Yun

I thought we weren't because the wickens got all bent out of shape after the census.

Spoilers ahead:

You could have said you were in mourning over (and then just not mention it was) Han Solo.

I should have posted this here weeks ago, but people still seem to enjoy it:

To Whom It May Concern,

My son was absent from school today (December 18, 2015). We were not able to sleep until approximately 0300 hours, and XXXXX was in no condition to attend class. The reason for the disruption in our schedule was the opening night of Star Wars: The Force Awakens .

Much to my dismay, in the past, when I have written XXXXX excuse notes for such critically mandatory cultural events, XXXXX Elementary has docked him with /unexcused/ absences. I want to ensure that this miscarriage of justice does not occur again.

As practicing Jedi, I request that XXXXX Elementary respect our religious freedoms. The Jedi Church (www.jedichurch.org) is an officially recognized religion in the United Kingdom (the one nation where knights are still honored). The opening of the film, that essentially saved our faith, is clearly a high holiday in the calendar of our religion. XXXXX must be granted a properly excused absence in order to avoid abrogating our Constitutional rights, in the same manner that other religious orders are permitted to observe their holy days.

Thank you,

Dee Yun

Do you get the fourth of May off as a holiday?

I thought we weren't because the wickens got all bent out of shape after the census.

We can do this? Wait till I tell my boss I want the day of for the Rise of R'ylleh and Cthulhu's ascencion.

I already celebrate Jason day. (Every fryday the 13th)

1st Amendment carries a ton of weight this side of the Pond. I probably should play hookey with my kid on May 4th

I should have posted this here weeks ago, but people still seem to enjoy it:

To Whom It May Concern,

My son was absent from school today (December 18, 2015). We were not able to sleep until approximately 0300 hours, and XXXXX was in no condition to attend class. The reason for the disruption in our schedule was the opening night of Star Wars: The Force Awakens .

Much to my dismay, in the past, when I have written XXXXX excuse notes for such critically mandatory cultural events, XXXXX Elementary has docked him with /unexcused/ absences. I want to ensure that this miscarriage of justice does not occur again.

As practicing Jedi, I request that XXXXX Elementary respect our religious freedoms. The Jedi Church (www.jedichurch.org) is an officially recognized religion in the United Kingdom (the one nation where knights are still honored). The opening of the film, that essentially saved our faith, is clearly a high holiday in the calendar of our religion. XXXXX must be granted a properly excused absence in order to avoid abrogating our Constitutional rights, in the same manner that other religious orders are permitted to observe their holy days.

Thank you,

Dee Yun

Oh... I was going to say dear god, but not fitting in this context for my perspective.

I'm sure this kid is going to turn out just fine and well adjusted.... :-/

sorry to piss on your chips but it's not a recognised religion at all.. Merely it was assigned a unique number for the census due to how many people selected it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jedi_census_phenomenon#England_and_Wales

sorry to piss on your chips but it's not a recognised religion at all.. Merely it was assigned a unique number for the census due to how many people selected it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jedi_census_phenomenon#England_and_Wales

14.7%: No religion.

Wow, there are a lot of No worshippers in England and Wales. I wonder if No is a god or a goddess.

sorry to piss on your chips but it's not a recognised religion at all.. Merely it was assigned a unique number for the census due to how many people selected it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jedi_census_phenomenon#England_and_Wales

14.7%: No religion.

Wow, there are a lot of No worshippers in England and Wales. I wonder if No is a god or a goddess.

Last figure I saw was:

Atheist 50%

Spiritual but not religious 25%

Christian 11%

Muslim 11%

Other 11%

And yes I know that's more than 100% but I didn't conduct the survey.

sorry to piss on your chips but it's not a recognised religion at all.. Merely it was assigned a unique number for the census due to how many people selected it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jedi_census_phenomenon#England_and_Wales

14.7%: No religion.

Wow, there are a lot of No worshippers in England and Wales. I wonder if No is a god or a goddess.

Maybe they misspelt Gno as in Gnosticism? ;-)

I'm sure this kid is going to turn out just fine and well adjusted.... :-/

Speaking personally, I'll be happy if my son ends up with exactly this kind of amused skepticism toward authority.

I love it!

sorry to piss on your chips but it's not a recognised religion at all.. Merely it was assigned a unique number for the census due to how many people selected it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jedi_census_phenomenon#England_and_Wales

14.7%: No religion.

Wow, there are a lot of No worshippers in England and Wales. I wonder if No is a god or a goddess.

Maybe they misspelt Gno as in Gnosticism? ;-)

I bet the "G" is silent.

sorry to piss on your chips but it's not a recognised religion at all.. Merely it was assigned a unique number for the census due to how many people selected it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jedi_census_phenomenon#England_and_Wales

Heh, as long as his teacher doesn't realize that I'm fine with it!

sorry to piss on your chips but it's not a recognised religion at all.. Merely it was assigned a unique number for the census due to how many people selected it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jedi_census_phenomenon#England_and_Wales

14.7%: No religion.

Wow, there are a lot of No worshippers in England and Wales. I wonder if No is a god or a goddess.

Maybe they misspelt Gno as in Gnosticism? ;-)

I bet the "G" is silent.

So how would one pronounce God in that case?

Zod

Lemmy

No it's pronounced flying spaghetti monster.

So because something might be a recognized religion in a different country it would automatically give you rights elsewhere?

Strange thinking.

Dangerous territory to tread as well, you'd only have to run into a non-Christian teacher with a sense of humour to be dragged into school on Christmas. It's not your holy day, no reason for you to observe it with a day off after all. .

No it's pronounced flying spaghetti monster.

Problem is people actual started worshiping it in a non-ironic way, so that one is ruined for us. I swear one of these days someone will come up with a Floating Canneloni monsters and then there will be jihad...

Believer 1: "Our Lord is covered in tomato sauce!"

Believer 2: "No It's Carbonara sauce!"

Believer 1 "Blapshemy!"

Believer 2: "Die heretic!"

If someone claimed to be a Jedi to get some sort of special consideration, I, if I was in the position of authority, would kindly ask them to move an object using the Force. If they failed to do so, repercussions would ensue.

Just lie and say the kid wasn't feeling well or follow the mantra of "If you can't do the time, don't do the crime."

If someone claimed to be a Jedi to get some sort of special consideration, I, if I was in the position of authority, would kindly ask them to move an object using the Force. If they failed to do so, repercussions would ensue.

I'm just curious: should we apply the same test to, say, Catholics? Transubstantiate this cracker into the literal body of Christ, or I won't believe you're really a member of the church. For Jews, give them a small oil lantern and ask them to make it burn for eight days. And I'm sure we can come up with similar demonstrations of supernatural intervention from every faith tradition before we accept their beliefs as a legitimate reason to take a day off.

Or we can agree as a society to take all claims of faith at their face value, especially when it comes to something as trivial as a parentally-sanctioned vacation day.

If someone claimed to be a Jedi to get some sort of special consideration, I, if I was in the position of authority, would kindly ask them to move an object using the Force. If they failed to do so, repercussions would ensue.

I'm just curious: should we apply the same test to, say, Catholics? Transubstantiate this cracker into the literal body of Christ, or I won't believe you're really a member of the church. For Jews, give them a small oil lantern and ask them to make it burn for eight days. And I'm sure we can come up with similar demonstrations of supernatural intervention from every faith tradition before we accept their beliefs as a legitimate reason to take a day off.

Or we can agree as a society to take all claims of faith at their face value, especially when it comes to something as trivial as a parentally-sanctioned vacation day.

Being a Christian is not claiming to be Christ. Claiming to be a Jedi, however, is making a claim to be able to use the Force.