She was sixteen, so she is not entitled to it in her own right — the right is mine until she is eighteen — so what she actually did was write it out herself, in her own words, and bring it to me to sign.

There is nothing in it.

Forty pages of attendance and grades and a note from a science teacher in 2023 that says she is argumentative in a way that is mostly productive.

She has it in a folder in her room.

Part Thirty-Nine: Eleven Weeks

The superintendent’s office telephoned on the twentieth of February.

Dr.

Renata Salas-Whitcomb has run that district since 2021.