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

outside in the hallway, the old shoes in the shoebox under his arm and the new ones on his feet. He asked if he could keep both pairs. I told him of course he could. He nodded with the satisfied expression of someone who has confirmed a logistical detail they already knew the right answer to and simply needed to have acknowledged.

We walked out of the continue reading …