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Chapter 14 - Kindergarten
Pippa’s preschool teacher contradicted almost everything.
Ms. Elena Brooks had taught her for eight months.
Her report:
Friendly.
Sensitive.
Some difficulty with transitions.
Occasional crying when corrected.
No persistent aggression.
No serious destruction.
No elopement.
No cruelty to peers or animals.
Age-appropriate impulsivity.
She told investigators:
“If someone gave me Camilla’s description without a name, I would not guess Pippa.”
That sentence mattered.
Children can behave differently at home.
So school records did not prove Camilla invented everything.
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But they undermined the idea that Pippa had a severe pervasive behavioral disorder obvious across settings.
Residential treatment became harder to justify.
