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A Tuesday in the winter of 2004 finds me standing behind my desk at Ideal Mini School in Vancouver’s Marpole neighbourhood, where the weekly school meeting is getting underway. Since it is held in my classroom, I could stay put, but I decide to stroll down the hallway to round up stragglers. When I return with a couple of Grade 9s who were busy in the art room, we have to shoulder our way in.