Harassment of a pupil based on disability, once the school is on notice, is the school’s legal problem, with an affirmative duty to investigate and to stop it, and a failure to do so is a civil rights violation that a parent can report to a federal office for free, by filling in a web form, with a word limit.

The school had been on notice since the Monday Maya sat in the nurse’s office with blistered hands and told the nurse, when asked why she had not used the lift, that she did not want to walk past the three boys by the stairwell.

That was written in a log.

The nurse wrote it down, correctly, because nurses do.

It sat in a log.