I Visited My Daughter’s School Without Notice And Witnessed Something That Changed Everything

travels too easily through systems that call themselves corrective. Because I had once fed you and meant what I said.

Aloud I said, “Because someone once believed you could become better.”

The tears in her eyes changed then. Not more of them. A different kind. As if hope had become more frightening to her than punishment.

I turned to leave. At the end continue reading …