Virginia

who was out on the playground in temps in the 20's and wasn't wearing any socks. The Office took note.

After the dismissal bell rang, I was summoned to the Principal's Office. Not to be congratulated for being diligent and looking after that boy, but to be severely remonstrated.

The school's primary interest was to protect its federal funding. And because I reported "an incident", they had to make a record of it, which would go to D.C. And if a public school had a certain number of "incidents", it would result in losing federal dollars for being lackadaisical in not preventing accidents, welfare, etc.

I was floored that I was getting a tongue-lashing for looking after an 8 year boy.

Let's say that the school and I parted ways shortly thereafter.