The law that would have required somebody to telephone me arrived three years after my son finished.

And I want to say the next part carefully, because it is the only way I have found to hold it.

That law exists because of a family who went through something far worse than we did and who spent years making sure it happened to fewer people.

Every protection my daughter has at her high school right now was paid for by somebody else’s child.

That is how all of it works.