It begins when the teacher sends home a note. I am mortified to be sent home with a teacher’s note, knowing from televised situation comedies that teachers’ notes are usually bad news, with the child in enough trouble to warrant a collective “oooh” from a studio audience. There had been a few real-life situations that could have been construed as wacky misunderstandings but were classified as questionable misconduct. Apparently, there were several instances where my response to a teacher’s inquiry was inappropriate. I did not always take direction well. I was frequently answering to someone else’s name. However, instead of asking me — a mere child probably lacking the moral compass to be truthful in a way that aligned with a pre-conceived truth — why on Earth I would behave in such ways, when most other evidence pointed to my being a quiet and clever child, the teacher sends me home with a note for my mother.
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