It’s a cold day in Durham, and Cristal Simon’s fourth-grade class at Glenn Elementary is coming to the close of a science lesson. The kids are sitting around their tables when Ashley Morie—Coach A, as everyone here calls her—enters the classroom and brings recess to them. They stand and face her and she announces the first game: “Frozen fish!”
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