Becoming Nicole: The Transformation Of An American Family - Plot & Excerpts
—from the handbook for incoming students to Orono Middle School By the end of Nicole’s fifth-grade year, a staff person was following her everywhere she went on the school grounds. It was called an “eyes-on” policy and it was meant to protect Nicole. It was also supposed to be temporary. Instead, it was unrelenting. An adult was always waiting for her, standing across from her locker when she arrived at school in the morning, sitting in the back of her classroom all day, and if she got up to go the bathroom, following about six to ten feet behind her down the hallway. The twins would attend sixth grade at Orono Middle School. Not much would change except the building, which was adjacent to Asa Adams. Nicole and Jonas would pretty much have the same classmates and the same administrators. Two weeks before the start of sixth grade, Kelly was up early, writing an email to Sharon Brady, the special services director for Orono public schools, checking to make sure that Jacob wasn’t in Nicole’s or Jonas’s class and that their lockers weren’t anywhere near his.
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