And a school with two determinations a year looks, on a spreadsheet at a district office, like a school where nothing is happening.

A school where nothing is happening does not get resources, or training, or a second counsellor, or an audit.

The blank box did not just lose my son’s four reports.

It actively told the district that my son’s school was fine.

Arthur read that page over my shoulder on a Sunday in January and he did not say anything for about a minute, and my brother is a man who always says something.

And then he said: “Evelyn, I have done this for thirty-four years and I want to tell you what you’ve got, because you’re about to underestimate it.