Article May 21, 2012 Issue

Are you really a bank robber?

Letter to a teenage friend

Walter Rodgers

Dear **********,

It’s never easy attending a middle school or even a high school. Any adult who tells you it is, has a short memory. I suspect you were right when you told me your parents don’t have any idea of the extent of teasing, bullying, and other cruelties you and young people your age endure at school. 

But as I tried to explain in Sunday School, no situation is hopeless. And I have a good enough memory to recall how devastating the torment felt when I was in the eighth grade, living in a rough, working-class neighborhood. I suspect you’ve also discovered that cruel words are more lastingly painful than a slap in the face.

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