The first time I met Jacob’s mother, she came into my office in tears.
“You won’t like my son,” she said. “He is in the car in the parking lot and refusing to come in to see you, but this is nothing new.
There is a fairly disturbing video circulating the Internet this week: a substitute teacher appears terrified as students verbally, and even physically, threaten her. One boy goes so far as to raise a chair in the air, as if preparing to strike her.