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

had gone to the art room and come back out wearing something different. Because a girl named Laura had asked about a pair of shoes and listened to the answer. Because my son had stood in front of his whole school wearing his father’s name on his feet and let his shoulders go back and understood, at eight years old, what it meant to belong to someone continue reading …