She Moved Her Chair—and Our School Turned Kindness Into Controversy

forcing each word to stay steady. “She was sitting near him.”

“And what happens,” Ms. Kline asked, “if he has a severe episode? What happens if something escalates and a child is harmed? Parents will ask why the school allowed unstructured peer intervention.”

She said it like she was reading from a script someone wrote in a district office far away from continue reading …