Losing your tooth is a big deal when you're a kid! Not only do you get a super cool gap in your mouth that you get to show off to all your friends, but you get to put your tooth under your pillow for the Tooth Fairy who will leave you money in exchange for it! Losing your tooth is so exciting for a child, except when they actually lose their teeth.

When a student at Gillett Elementary School in Wisconsin recently lost their tooth while playing outside during recess, school principal Curt Angeli's quick thinking saved the day. Angeli decided to help the student out and write an official letter to the Tooth Fairy letting her know that the child in question actually lost their tooth at school.

Angeli explained that the student lost the tooth in the ga-ga pit and that despite the "valiant efforts of an intrepid search team" they were unable to locate the tooth. "As a trained principal and hobby dentist, I can verify that there is definitely a gap in [the student's] teeth that was not there this morning when he came in," the principal wrote. "Please accept this letter as official verification of a lost tooth and provide the standard monetary exchange rate you normally use for a real tooth," Angeli concluded the note.

Angeli also added at the end of the letter that he was still awaiting payment from losing his wisdom teeth in 1987. "Please remit as soon as possible," he wrote.

The student proudly declared to Angeli the next day that the letter indeed worked and that he received one dollar from the Tooth Fairy. Angeli, who has been a principal at this school for six years, told CNN that being an educator at a small rural school means doing whatever it takes to help out and reach his students even though this was the first time he's ever written to the Tooth Fairy.

"Education sometimes is a tough business nowadays," Angeli told the news station. "Kids come to us from all different places, and you try to infuse that good support and acknowledgment in everything that you do."

What an awesome principal to go above and beyond for one of his students. Good for him!

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