In school, she ran the show. But she couldn’t reach her own son
“Remember, you’re playing with a life,” Mrs Delmar chokes out, and the line goes dead.
Bluma puts the phone down, a bit too loudly.
Mothers. As if she didn’t know. Rikki Delmar. She writes the name in block capitals in her notepad, underlines it, then draws a rectangle around it. Let her come along on the school shabbaton or not?
She looks up and 500 faces are smiling at her from five 10 inch by 12 inches on the bulletin board. The five graduating classes she’s overseen. She’s been at Ateres for 22 years, first as general studies teacher, then as assistant principal, and now she’s made it to the top.
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