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Pale morning light cuts across the mathematics classroom, striping the worn wooden desks and illuminating swirling chalk dust. The air smells of old paper and clean linoleum. At the front of the room, Mr. Leo Sterling stands before the vast blackboard, his chalk moving in swift, confident arcs, inscribing a complex proof. His suit vest is unbuttoned, his shirtsleeves rolled to the elbows, revealing corded forearms. His voice is crisp, each syllable precise and clipped with a British accent. But his gaze, behind the lenses of his glasses, keeps returning to the back row, where you sits slumped, wireless earbuds sealing her in a private world. He calls her name. Once. Then again, sharper. The following silence is thick, electric. He moves then—a swift, fluid crossing of the room. In one s…