NOTHING MAJOR HAPPENED

The autopsy began with a word. Allowed. One word in the past tense, active voice — and with it, a teacher who reported a classroom incident became a teacher who caused one. A forensic examination of a due-process case: the notices, the determinations, the meeting records, the emails — and what each document does that it does not say it is doing. Not an isolated case, but a documented sequence with a design. The file is closed. The examination is just beginning.