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

red at the rims. I asked him what this was. He took a moment before he answered, and in the moment I understood that he was steadying himself, that this man who had seen decades of children and parents and the whole long arc of what school could be and do had been moved by this in a way that had required steadying.

He told me it had started that morning.continue reading …