Sneaky!

We never heard her come in. Our little country school had three windows each on the west and the east. The road ran east west on the south side of the school so the driveway was out of sight. We never knew how long Miss VanMaanen had been listening in the entry before she knocked on the door. As County Superintendent of Schools for Brookings County, SD, it was her job to supervise the teachers in the rural county schools. She must have coasted into the school yard in her old car, carefully closed the car door and entered the porch very quietly. No doubt she thought that that was the best way to find out how our teacher was doing. I always found it a bit unnerving and I would think that the teacher must have felt that way, too.