Milly-Anne

Ms. Goodnight bustled back into her room. She’d just completed her third meeting of the day, this one a PLT meeting for her second PLC group, which followed an IEP meeting into which she was roped for a student she didn’t know, which itself followed an impromptu parent meeting when Mrs. Bigsly showed up unannounced demanding to know why her son, Clayton, was failing nearly every class. Ms. Goodnight explained that Clayton was failing because he didn’t do any of his work and ate paste to entertain his friends, a fact that did not seem to faze his mother.

“But it says in his IEP that he has ‘room to wander.’”

Stunned, Ms. Goodnight excused herself. She had other students to worry about, like Jordan Lee, who never had anything to ea……