Sherry Darling
New Yorker
So I've been, as a few of you may know, I have been teaching at the Juvenile Detention Center here in VA. I've recently learned that one of my kids, one of the ones who always seemed genuinely "hard" to me as opposed to putting on a facade, is doing his Juvie Hall time for a physical conflict with his father. His father was drunkenly beating his mother, and has been for some time. He intervened.
Can anyone riddle me this: why exactly should this kid respect a legal system that cannot protect her?
Can anyone riddle me this: why exactly should this kid respect a legal system that cannot protect her?