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

still be saved. I thought about a roll of duct tape handed to me by an eight-year-old as though it were the most obvious solution in the world. I thought about three hundred children sitting silently on a gymnasium floor with tape on their shoes, choosing without being asked to make the mark of one child’s grief into something that belonged to all continue reading …