The Backpack Drop Zone: One Sixth-Grade Truth That Exposed Our Quiet Crisis

said.

The principal’s mouth tightened. “About yesterday.”

I felt my stomach drop like a stone into a deep well.

“It was an exercise,” I said quickly. “It was anonymous. It was—”

“It was emotional,” the principal cut in. “And some parents feel it crossed a line.”

The counselor shifted her folder. “They said their child came home upset.”

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