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

I did not argue with him. He was not entirely wrong about the sad, and the argument would have cost energy I did not have.

Andrew looked at the ruined shoes and then at me, and then he went and got a roll of duct tape from the kitchen drawer. He held it out like a solution.

“We can fix them,” he said.

I wrapped the soles as carefully as I could, pulling continue reading …