This is the first episode of Adults in the Room, a seven-part narrative podcast.
When I was a senior in high school, my best friend Ella Hushagen and I heard a rumor: A popular teacher was abusing a boy at our school. Maybe abusing a boy.
Maybe… more than one boy. Lots of maybes. Zero proof. We told authorities what we’d heard. When they didn’t act, we raised hell. And then, our friends, parents, teachers, even a columnist at Seattle’s biggest newspaper … called us gossips.
Rumormongers…