Over the past twenty-two months, I feel that I’ve become a hardened veteran of the vagaries and exigencies of life in New Moore. Over that same span of time, I hope that school faculty and administrators have come to know me well enough to testify that I’m not the sort to find meaningless excuses to avoid schoolwork. In fact, my dedication to extracurricular activities means I’ve had to go far out of my way to avoid absences, so that my participation would be permitted. The penalties for missing a day are far more severe than anything levied by the school, and the consequences more dire than facing up to even something as serious as a meningitis scare.

With that in mind, please take the following proposal seriously: during upsetting anomalies, even if it’s impractical to cancel school, please treat all unexpected absences as excused. It might be impractical to take a drastic step like erasing school vacations to schedule them at the drop of a metaphysical hat, but short of that it has to be argued that during such creative reversals of the natural order, students might have any manner of reasons for incomplete attendance, many of which are left better unexplained, but nonetheless solid in their validity. Whatever steps are required to institute this change, even with only seven months until my graduation, I’ll gladly undertake them. Fill out paperwork, distribute a petition, lobby the school board or even run for a seat myself: whatever it takes. Immediate action is required, and I’ll be unflinchingly sure to do whatever I must.

That said, I know it’s pre-emptive, but regardless of the final decision, I won’t be coming into school today, and as outrageous and presumptuous an action as it may seem, I must strongly urge my fellow members of the Amelia Earhart Memorial Student Body to do the same.

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[ The video turns on to a shy smile and a small nod. ] I'm Kaname Madoka. I don't know very many of you, but I hope that we get along well.

I've never been away from home for this long before. [ At least, this intended amount of time -- being "forever, or until you disappear." That's a little worrying, especially since things have gotten so dire at home. ] I don't…think that I can accept that my home is fictional. But I want to help everyone here as much as I can, even if I don't have many useful skills.

Also…if anyone has seen a girl named Akemi Homura, I'm looking for her. It's very important. I need to talk to her right away! So please, if you see her, will you let her know?

Thank you very much.

[ On your screens today is one pinkette, and she seems to be acting a little awkwardly, with a very strange face for a moment or two before she laughs it off and smiles gently. ]

I was wondering... does anybody have any spare ribbons? I don't have mine anymore.