This British girl was now a mother of a special-needs person who needed to go to school

You know the story of the woman who lifted a car to save her child who was trapped underneath?

I’ll tell you what my teen self thought about it.

Massive eye roll. A likely story! Maybe the car was a 1960s clunker. With all the ratzon in the world, no one in this classroom is ever gonna pick up a car no matter who’s trapped under it. Potential has limits, I don’t care what anyone tells me.

And Life happened.

Spoiler alert: I’ve never had to lift a car off anyone. (May I never have to, what with the size of SUVs nowadays.)

But I did fight City Hall.

I will admit that as I wheeled my special-needs daughter into the municipality building of Ashdod, there was at least one butterfly telling me that a good British girl does not walk into the mayor’s office uninvited and unannounced.

A good British girl stays quiet and does what she’s told. She definitely doesn’t call up reporters and tell them that there’s a group of mothers with their special-needs children going to the mayor to protest, and maybe they’d like to send someone to take notes? Pictures?

But this British girl was now a mother of a special-needs person who needed to go to school.