She described the children in her chronological notes as being happy. She described them as being clean and appeared to be well cared for.

It is hard to express my feelings upon learning that the actions of a Department of Children & Families employee led to the endangerment of this child.

We take incredibly seriously the fact that something we could have done may have averted this tragedy. The child died as a result of abuse.

To children childhood holds no particular advantage.

And eventually, if the children in the two schools start to see themselves as a whole unit – less (as) competing schools and more of a school community and family – it will help make for easier transitions when they come together in middle school.

It covers the kids, but it may leave the moms in the waiting room who care for the children without access to the doctor if she's sick.