Anna, 33, is a former flight attendant from Minneapolis who needed a flexible schedule after a messy divorce (her lawyer's name was Carl, and Carl, by all accounts, was excellent). She subbed 7th-grade science on a Thursday and logged exactly zero tardies — first time that had happened all semester. Then the fire drill hit. Standard procedure: everyone files out. What happened instead was that seventeen 12-year-olds immediately looked to Anna for confirmation of whether the drill was real before moving. She told them it was a drill. They still didn't leave immediately. The fire marshal has since revised his report. But wait — the really wild part came when the permanent teacher came back the following Monday.