Bashed
by
Barbara Marquardt
Jean Kosciuszko stood waiting outside her door, m onitoring the hall as all teachers were
expected to do during the four mi nutes of passing time between classes. It was the last period of
the day on the last day before a two week Christma s break, and the hall was empty and quiet.
No other teachers stood on duty, but that was not unusual.
The silence suggested that the whole school mi ght already be empty of students. Even on
norma l days, eighth period seem ed to exist to be cut, but the halls would still be f ull of kids at
their lockers or on the roam, looking for trouble. Today the absence of a single sound was
alm ost eerie. Jean wondered if the other teachers were even around, or if they' d found som e way
to leave early. Since the school had stopped using signatures for attendance, she’d often noticed
som e teachers running m ore than one ID card through the m achine that took attendance. Since
she didn’t join the cliques that went drinking after school or partied on weekends, she was, like
other loners on the faculty, out of the loop when it cam e to knowing how practice differed from
policy. ...
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