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

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Her gaze darted to the duffel bag again.

“Someone brought food,” I said.

“Which is kind,” she said, “but it can also be… complicated.”

“Complicated?” I echoed.

She didn’t answer right away.

Instead, she said the sentence that has slowly hollowed out public education over the last decade:

“We need to think about liability.”

There it was.

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