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

on theirs as well, not all of them and not every day, but enough that the tape was no longer a mark of difference. It was a mark of something else now, something the school had quietly agreed upon without anyone formally proposing it. Andrew started talking at dinner again. Small things first, a story from recess, something funny a teacher had said,continue reading …