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Joan Chen is a child-care provider at Kind Kinder Kare, Inc. One of the children in her room is three-year-old Ameer Ican. Like many of the children Joan has cared for over the years, Ameer often comes to school dirty and with scabs and bruises. Ameer has a vivid imagination and often tells some pretty preposterous stories. One day, Joan witnesses Ameer angrily strike another child, but, when she confronted him, he denied that he did so. Joan reports this to his mother when she comes to pick him up.

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