I am no stranger to controversy. As a student during the universally watershed year of 5th grade, we were assigned extra homework as punishment for not wearing a hat on (no suspense here) “Wear A Hat Day.”
And I reluctantly took on the difficult role of Whistleblower.
My first step was to enrage my parents on my behalf. And so
I wove the tale of the abuse of power that “Wear A Hat Day” had come to
represent. This so-called voluntary activity had fallen into the wrong hands,
and now was being used as a scapegoat for assigning extra homework. Every
authoritarian regime starts with a scapegoat. And I would NOT be theirs. And
they would be fools, to let it happen on their watch.
Elementary schools on theme days can be a real powderkeg.
