Short Story

He Couldn’t Figure Out Why The Old School Was Better

Growing up

Victoria Ponte
The Lark Publication
3 min readMay 16, 2024

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Photo by Moren Hsu on Unsplash

It is October 25th, 1970 and a small, skinny seven-year-old Jewish boy from Brooklyn is getting out of the green, wood panel-sided station wagon that serves as his school bus. He smiles, waves, and says to the driver,

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Victoria Ponte
The Lark Publication

Writing to share wonder, gratitude and a sense of humor. Poetry, life lessons, survivor. Buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/victoriaponte