“Is any of this true, Rachel?”

“No, Mr.

Miller.

My sister threw an iron skillet at my four-year-old, and Detective Mitchell has the cloud video from the kitchen.”

“The school board doesn’t conduct criminal reviews,” he said.

“But an active ethics complaint automatically freezes your third-grade summer prep contract and puts your forty-four-thousand-dollar annual salary under board review until we meet on August twenty-first.”

“That’s three weeks from now,” I said.

“That’s standard district procedure when an immediate family member files a formal complaint about child welfare,” he said.