can you post attendance, please?

can you post attendance, please?

'twas the week before Christmas
and all through the school
the teachers were missing
so kids checked the pools

from Palm Springs to Oahu
the students, they searched
but not one instructor was found
they were left in a lurch!

no homework?  no research?
no papers, no books?
they looked high and low
in all crannies, all nooks

attendance was taken
but the teachers weren't there
call in the clones, get the subs
where'd they go?  it's not fair!

what about parties?
and grades?  we need papers back!
boys and girls, they missed us
some picked up the slack

but we had all left
the hallways were bare
sorry for not posting,
i just wasn't there!

--miss smith (that would be me)