Part 5 in Magazine Man’s story about how his first-grade son got detention for doing the right thing, and how he fought the system, and won a phyrric victory. But…
“This is Junu Kim. Jackie, my little girl, she is in class with Thomas… Thomas is a good boy. He is a good friend to Jackie. She talks very much at home but not at school. Thomas is very kind to her.”
“Isn’t that great?” I said. “See? Andrew didn’t get away with it. The bad guys don’t always win.”
If I was expecting a big hug and a smile, I was sorely disappointed. “That’s it?” Thomas asked indignantly. “Andrew gets to watch TV?!? That’s not fair!”
Well, when he put it that way…
Part of me just wanted to turn up at the school at lunch and take Thomas to McDonald’s and tell the Dean of Discipline to go fuck himself. But I knew that was carrying it too far. I had pursued things enough to make sure that at least the other boy got in trouble and that Assouline actually did his job enough to confirm that fact. I should have been satisfied. But I wasn’t.
Read part 5 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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