The Friends' School's position — that it never discouraged parents from telling their daughters — cannot be simultaneously true alongside the parents' direct accounts. One set of people is wrong about a conversation that determined whether 21 girls learned they were victims from their own families or from police or from rumor. That gap in accounts is not a matter of interpretation; it is a question of whether the school's crisis response prioritized the institution's exposure over the welfare of the students it was legally and ethically obligated to protect.