Not by shouting at him.

By handing him one small easy lie and letting him take it.

And two months later I sat in an assistant principal’s office and a boy who had been raised in that house said please don’t, it’ll be worse, and I treated it as a decision.

Part Thirteen: Why I Stopped

My eleventh and last email to Caddo Springs High School is dated the ninth of April 2013 and it is four lines long.

There is a reason it is four lines long and the reason is that in the May of 2012, after the meeting in March, Douglas told me to stop.