A heartwarming story just in time for National Bullying Awareness Week
We’re getting a little misty-eyed reading this excellent anti-bullying essay by Chicago Now columnist Carrie Goldman.
Goldman’s daughter Katie loves the Star Wars. So when it came time for them to pick out a new lunch box and water bottle for the school year, Katie selected items from a galaxy far, far away.
Goldman writes that she used to think of bullying as a problem that affected older kids, but when Katie burst into tears insisting that she’d rather bring an old pink water bottle than her beloved Star Wars one, Goldman knew something was up. Here’s an excerpt:
She wailed, “The first grade boys are teasing me at lunch because I have a Star Wars water bottle. They say it’s only for boys. Every day they make fun of me for drinking out of it. I want them to stop, so I’ll just bring a pink water bottle.”
