I do not think anybody did anything wrong at that school out of malice.

I have sat in a room with all of them.

The assistant principal is a decent, overworked woman with eight hundred and forty children and a building from 1974.

But I want to record the mechanism, because the mechanism is the point of this whole account: a nurse’s log entry is not a complaint.

A nurse’s log entry sits in a drawer forever.

The thing that makes a school act is a sentence, in writing, from a parent, with the word access or the word harassment in it, and a request for a meeting, and a date.