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It's January and it's been raining. But it is a wonderful day, and I get ready for work with great enthusiasm. As I drive to school, I feel really comfortable and secure. Evaluations of all of the students have been finished. I enjoy the cooperation of a super staff. All current paper work is out of the way. My spirits are high. I arrive at the school planning to "float" through the classrooms; interacting with teachers, parents, and children; enjoying the prestige of my position - hard earned after 29 years in the same job.I enter the building and start down the stairway to the nursery school level (the building stands on a below-street-level patio). The sewage is backed up, flooding the restrooms and hallways. Warning bells are ringing from an unknown sump pump signal that is located in a room that I had never had cause to enter in 29 years. Out come mops, buckets, wet boxes to be discarded, rolled up rugs to be dried out and perhaps discarded, and prayers that it won't happen again.
A teacher arrives at work amidst the mopping and flooding. After going into ...