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I had written six hundred and forty words and practised it eleven times in my kitchen and I came in at two minutes fifty-one.
I am going to put the middle of it in, because the beginning is an introduction and the end is a request.
I said:
“In the two school years from the autumn of 2012 to the spring of 2014, this district reported four bullying determinations at Caddo Springs High School.
That is a school of sixteen hundred students.
The figures came to me from the district on the twenty-eighth of December in response to a public information request and I have them here.
“In the same two years, six completed Student Bullying Incident Report forms were filled out at that campus about two children.