Part 4 in Magazine Man’s story about how his first-grade son got detention for doing the right thing, and how he fought the system.
“Are you shittin’ me? Detention? For trippin’ somebody?” my Dad exclaimed. When he gets excited, he often forgets to curb his profanity around the kids. Did I say often? Make that always.
I sat down on the stairs and went into eavesdrop mode…
“McGruff says you have to help your friends get away from bullies. Did they have McGruff at your school?”
“Nope. But you always stood up for your friends. And your family. My sister—your great-aunt Brenda—she used to get picked on sumpin awful. This boy in my class pushed her in the mud once…
Read part 4 of the story at Somewhere on the Masthead.
(If you want to read all 6 parts, you can get links to all the parts at my writing and storytelling blog.)
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