Bulletin Board Notice--Comings and Goings

[Xena]

Dear Students:

Corky has just taken a lucrative position as counselor at a home for disturbed teenage witches  and unwed young mothers in Canada. We will miss her, but are glad she is happy in her next adventure. Doctor Deb, who has been helping us the last six weeks, will now take a permanent position as her replacement.

Principal L. Cook

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Cook looked at her desk. Three students had left in the last week. Nigel was deported back to
England. Taffy’s carny parents transferred her to another school. And Makepeace. How would
she explain that? The students were already suffering so much since the death of Walker and
the demise of the Lighthouse.

The boy had arrived in the nurse’s office late one night two weeks ago, complaining of a severe, blinding headache. It was bad enough that he had been emergency port-keyed to a magical hospital.
While being examined, the medi-witches and wizards had found a massive brain tumor, and the
boy had died last night. She didn’t believe in lying to students, but she may have to postpone this news. With the boy an orphan, it wouldn’t be announced in the paper and there would be no services, so who would know he had died much sooner than it was announced?

What could she do? She decided to tell the faculty that Makepeace had been taken ill and left
the school for medical treatment. That was the truth anyway. They could pass this on to the
students. She would then tell the faculty privately that the illness was terminal, and the boy was
not expected to live. Eventually, the students would find that out too. Faculty talked to each other. Students listened and picked these things up.  Then there was his  girlfriend. The girl would want to gather his things together. Maybe she could tell Rebecca that they’d found a massive brain tumor and it was terminal. The girl needed to know she couldn’t hold out hope. Then in a few months, or perhaps over the summer, she could let it be known that he had died. Yes, that would work.  

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