All right, I can sympathize. I'm sure it happens. I'm sure I've been the one to do it. But (and here's where we file this under Conspiracy Theory), isn't this just the same thing that happens in all the books now? I think I said this already, but aren't there enough books where it turns out that the only person to truly listen to and understand our children are their teachers?
Or maybe I should read this differently and realize it's a lesson...if I don't let my kids speak up for themselves, their teachers will. Maybe it's a threat. Maybe Pamela Edwards is a teacher, and she's warning me that my quiet little Jr is really a bossy little jerk boy, just waiting to be let loose. By public education.
That went a little further than I planned.
My apologies to all the teachers.