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

was a part of me that wanted to delete it and never think about them again.

Then I thought about the teacher who whispered, “Records create problems.”

So I filled out the survey.

I didn’t curse.

I didn’t threaten.

I didn’t name names.

I wrote the truth in calm sentences that couldn’t be dismissed as “emotional.”

I wrote:

A policy is not protection if staff continue reading …