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

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I blinked.

She looked down at her hands.

“People don’t want to hear this,” she continued. “But some of us are burned out and afraid. Afraid of complaints, afraid of confrontation, afraid of doing the wrong thing. And sometimes… we freeze.”

I thought of the lunch duty teacher with the coffee.

My jaw tightened.

“That doesn’t make it okay,” I said.

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