School is out. I could feel it walking to the subway with
the sign this morning. Kids I normally pass weren’t there. The subway was less
crowded. No Asian
There were 20 parents, mostly women, I’d see every school
day with their kids walking by me from both directions on Chambers Street
taking their pre-schoolers and first graders to school. They’d smile as they
went past my sign. A few of the kids got to where they could smoothly read the
sign. Many of those parents and kids I won’t see again. One mother took my
picture with her two little boys on Friday.
I saw high school kids every day walking towards
hard-to-get-in Stuyvesant High. One kid
once had a basketball sweatshirt on that had the school logo and the team
nickname on it: the Peg Legs.
These kids, the young ones and the teenagers, are not who
the sign is about.
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