My Eight Year Old Son Was Teased for His Duct Taped Sneakers Then the Principal Called Me One Morning

feet every morning with the same deliberateness that I imagine a person puts on something they have decided is necessary for survival. He never asked to wear them anywhere specific or made a ceremony of them. They were simply what his feet wore now, and they wore them as though the shoes were continuous with his skin, as though removing them might continue reading …