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The substitute teacher for the kindergarten class cancelled her scheduled appearance 15 minutes before the school's corridors opened for the morning. The substitute substitute could come right away, but she had to leave at 11. The students, all of whom showed up on time, had to be divided between the remaining teachers after lunch recess. Chaos is troubling for many of these kids. School is the rule driven place, where expectations are made clear. It's safe. They know what will happen and when. Disrupt the routine, and expect a reaction. An unfamiliar sub is hard enough when you're 5 or 6. When outside you are bigger and taller than everyone else but inside you are a lot more scared than everyone else, when the new morning teacher doesn't come back so your whole class is scattered into strange rooms, when you find out that it's going to last for the whole rest of the day..... well, it's all just too much. And so he stood there, sobbing as qui...