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Cahoon Elementary Magnet School Principal Tanly Cabrera heads to a couple of chosen classrooms to greet fresh-faced students. It’s just before 9 a.m. today, the first day of school. She’s with Kelly Diedring, who cradles a foot-long, maybe more, blue-tongue skink. The blue tongue flicks in the humid morning air.
On a walkway to a classroom, the skink has a fairly large accident, and the mess plops on the pavement. Diedring asks for a paper towel to clean it up. Cabrera uses her two-way radio to summon a wad of paper towels. Diedring gently places the soiled paper towel in a corner of the walkway and Cabrera uses her radio once again.
“Just outside Classroom 21, there is a wad of paper towels,” she says into the black box. “It’s a gift from an animal.”
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