Teacher Humiliated, Called Predator Over Mother’s Day Kindness
This story sounds too cruel to be real, but welcome to the dystopia “Moms for Liberty” promotes
Once upon a time, I had a friend who did not have a mother. She died while he was still quite a little boy. Despite the preamble, this is a true story.
Let’s call that little boy Scott. I went to school with him in the third grade. One day, I asked him why he was sulking in a corner instead of cutting up construction paper for Mother’s Day cards like the rest of us kids.
“I don’t got a mom,” he said in an angry little 8-year-old voice.
“But everybody has a mom,” I replied thoughtlessly, stupidly.
Our teacher pulled me away then, gently. She took me aside and whispered that Scott’s mom had become very ill a couple years before and had gone to the hospital, but the doctors couldn’t save her. She said we should all be extra kind to Scott, especially around Mother’s Day. Could she count on me?
I cried as I walked home thinking about Scott’s pain. At that age, my own mom was the most important person in my universe, and the idea of being without her was … awful and unimaginable.
