Inclusion is one of those things that should be easy — it's no big secret that everybody likes to be included in fun stuff and recognized for what they do, right? — but in practice, turns out to be much more rare than you'd expect.
Of course, it's not unheard of for kids to exclude each other, and it can be difficult to navigate that as a parent. But as an adult at a school, it really shouldn't be troublesome.
And that's why the parents of one girl startlingly left out are speaking out.