She Moved Her Chair—and Our School Turned Kindness Into Controversy

“what do they do?”

She picked at the zipper on her backpack.

“They just… sit close,” she said. “Or they ask if they can walk with me. Or they ask me to look at something on their paper so they don’t feel weird.”

She swallowed.

“Sometimes they just talk. Like… too much.”

She looked up at me, and her eyes were glassy.

“And sometimes I want to help,” she said,continue reading …