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

He opened the folder and flipped a page.

“We have no record of reported incidents involving your daughter.”

I felt something in my chest go hot.

“No record,” I repeated. “Because the adults didn’t report it. That’s the problem.”

He lifted his hands in a calming gesture.

“Sometimes staff don’t perceive interactions the same way parents do.”

There it was.

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