I was not publicly humiliated. I was not sent to the principal’s office. I was not hauled off to the principal’s office kicking and crying.

The police did not haul me away in handcuffs. No suspension. No front page story the following day. Thank God for Miss Hanna, an adult, who handled a problem that came up on her time in an appropriate way.

I am worried about a little boy forced by law to return to a classroom where he was made to feel like a criminal over a piece of candy.

By comparison, I would have been hauled away in cuffs and charged as an adult for felony theft and battery.

Ruth Jarvis,

Lawrence