School had been in session at Mount Lookout Elementary for only a few weeks when Raylee Browning, a kindergartner with bright-blue eyes, arrived one morning in a wheelchair. Her family said she’d had a temper tantrum and kicked a wall, fracturing her femur. The explanation struck Carrie Ciliberti, Raylee’s gym teacher, as strange. Ciliberti knew that the femur is one of the strongest bones in the body, difficult to break. If you kick a wall hard enough to fracture your femur, wouldn’t you also break your foot? she wondered.

Ciliberti, who had been teaching for 34 years, knew Raylee to be a sweet child who loved to talk about becoming a princess. She never acted out, though she tended to vie for Ciliberti’s attention more than most other students did. Ciliberti noticed that Raylee didn’t

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