I remember having to write a biographical essay. I chose my father for my subject. One of the things that I wrote about was that my dad had to take a rifle with him through the woods to get to his bus stop for school. The teacher refused to believe it, thought I had misspelled “knife”, and corrected it. I can still see the red “k” in front of my handwritten “rifle”; I guess she didn’t see the “l”. She also wouldn’t acknowledge that my father was older than most of my peer’s fathers, having been born in 1929 (and this was in the ’70s).
I remember having to write a biographical essay. I chose my father for my subject. One of the things that I wrote about was that my dad had to take a rifle with him through the woods to get to his bus stop for school. The teacher refused to believe it, thought I had misspelled “knife”, and corrected it. I can still see the red “k” in front of my handwritten “rifle”; I guess she didn’t see the “l”. She also wouldn’t acknowledge that my father was older than most of my peer’s fathers, having been born in 1929 (and this was in the ’70s).