“I’ll be happy to stay with the class until the she arrives,” I offered. My child’s elementary teacher was running late from an early morning meeting and hadn’t made it back to the classroom in time to greet the students. No biggee. As a parent, I am certainly capable of monitoring 20 young students while they unpack backpacks and prepare for the morning’s lessons. It would only be a matter of minutes before the teacher arrived. This would be easy – or so I thought.
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