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

exhausting. The other kids had pointed. They had laughed. They had said the shoes were trash and that we belonged in a dumpster, and some of them had said it in the particular offhand way that makes casual cruelty worse than deliberate cruelty, as if they were simply reporting a fact about the natural order of things. Andrew had sat through it and continue reading …