Dear Mrs James,
I mean to clarify that I am not now, nor have I ever been, an exotic dancer.
I work at Home Depot and I told my daughter how hectic it was last week before the blizzard. I told her we sold out every single shovel we had, and then I found one more in the back room, and that several people were fighting over who would get it. Her picture doesn’t show me dancing around a pole. It’s supposed to depict me selling the last shovel we had at Home Depot.
From now on, I will remember to check her homework more.

@Linda: The other text refutes everything you said about how it couldn’t be a child’s drawing.

I knew all about “…” in 1st grade. And I knew about quotation marks too. My mother taught me how to write dialogue, because I wanted to write film scripts when I grew up.
And even if my mom didn’t teach me, do you see how people text each other now? They all use “…” to an extent that they appear to be morons, so if anything we have to teach kids now how not to sound like an idiot when they want to write out pauses.
Example: “so… do you wanna go to Starbucks… or… what…? where r u?… I’m waiting…”

So your argument is not very good. Any child can look at Mommy’s cell phone texts or Facebook status and see “…” everywhere. It’s very common.

And I bet the kids teacher probably wrote out the first part including the pause(“…”) on the board for her students, like my teachers used to. Sometimes you have to dumb it down for children to correctly do their assignment.

And props to the mom, because my mom also works at the home depot, but she talks to me about the fans and air conditioners they sell in the summer, because we are in CA. haha. No snow shovels needed in the bay area.