The Quiet Emergency: When Adults Look Away and Kids Learn to Disappear

see the tragedies. We assume it won’t happen to us until it does.

The next morning, I called my boss. “I’m taking a personal day.”

I didn’t tell my daughter. I drove to her middle school—a sprawling brick building in the suburbs that looked perfectly fine from the outside. I told the front office I needed to drop off some paperwork I’d forgotten. It continue reading …