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and said, “What are we going to eat at lunchtime? I’m STARVING!”

I had

NO IDEA

what we were going to eat for lunch if the dinner ladies were all on STRIKE, but I knew that that was probably the LEAST of our problems because it was only 9 a.m. And also because something BAD was obviously happening but we just didn’t know WHAT yet.

Then one of the teachers stood up on a