“Let me put it another way:  any of the teachers ever struck you as somebody who couldn’t make it at a university?  Losers?  Second raters?”

“No.”  She snipped it off like a thread that had the nerve to dangle from her skirt.  “They all seem quite competent.”

I waited, but she wasn’t going the next step without being pushed.  “And so the reason they’d be teaching at a children’s school instead of at a highly paid, high profile university is …?”

Her eyes widened.  I watched her jaw slacken.  “You think the government is funding the school?”

“Bingo.”

“But why?”

I sighed.  “Do you know what certain kinds of agencies mea...

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