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

not have to wear them today. He looked at me with an expression I recognized from his father’s face, the expression of a person who has made a decision from somewhere deeper than preference, and he said, quietly but without any uncertainty in it, that he was not taking them off.

So I watched him go. I stood in the doorway and watched the duct-taped continue reading …