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It was little more than six weeks into the new school year, and already
Serenity High School English teacher Laura Reed was seeing signs of a
potential problem with one of her juniors. Misty Dawson had been skipping
class for the past week. Attendance records showed she was in school, but
when it came time for English, she disappeared off the radar.
“Was Misty in your class today?” she asked Nancy Logan, who taught
history and current affairs.
“Front and center,” Nancy confirmed. “I wish I had a dozen students like
her. She’s smart and she’s always prepared. Why? Don’t tell me she skipped
English again?”
Laura nodded. “Afraid so, and I just don’t get it. All of her class records
suggest that she’s one of the brightest English students in the school. She
belongs in my advanced placement class. The first papers she turned in were
excellent. She’s definitely not having trouble with the material. That’s what
makes this so frustrating. It’s as if she simply vanishes during third period
every day.”
Physical education teacher and longtime coach Cal Maddox, who’d come
in to grab some bottled water from the refrigerator, joined them at the
conference table set up in the teachers’ lounge.
“Sorry to eavesdrop, but have you mentioned this to Betty?” he asked,
referring to their principal. “She needs to know if a kid’s not showing up for
class.”
Just the thought of going to Betty Donovan with this made Laura shudder.
A problem with a potentially simple solution would wind up being blown out
of all proportion. Cal, of all people, should know that. Betty had gone after
him for a violation of the morals clause in the teacher contract and created a
whole hoopla that had required school board intervention before being
resolved in Cal’s favor.
She looked him in the eye and shook her head. “Not yet,” she confessed.
“Which means I’m breaking all sorts of rules myself, but frankly, I’m less
concerned about Misty skipping than I am about why she’s doing it, and why
just my class.”
Cal frowned. “Are you sure it’s only your class?”
“You heard Nancy. Misty’s been in her class every day. I’ve checked
with Misty’s other teachers, and most of them say she’s had perfect
attendance all year. She started out okay in my class, too. Then she missed a
day here or there, but a week ago she simply stopped coming. That tells me
something’s going on in my class that upsets her. Or maybe she’s having a
problem with another student who’s in there. I can’t figure it out.”
“But aren’t most of the juniors taking the same courses?” Nancy asked.
“If Misty’s got a problem with another student, English wouldn’t be the only
class where they’d cross paths.”
That wasn’t as true now as it had once been, Laura thought. Serenity High
School wasn’t exactly huge. In fact, until the past few years, when
developments had begun popping up on the fringes of town, the school had
barely had five hundred students in grades nine through twelve.
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