Some Days...

My day yesterday started with the discovery of the necessity of filing my first-ever report to Child Protective Services...

...and went downhill from there.

Let's just say that after doing something like that, you don't have emotional reserves for anything else.

Update: I encountered the student in question this morning, whom I told yesterday "I'm going to talk to people who can help you." The child has never engaged me outside the classroom, but this morning was obviously anxious to share the books the he/she had read, and there was a sense of peace about him/her that I had never seen before. It's never an easy thing to do, but that was a reminder that I did the right thing.