Chapter 11
My mom started coming to school meetings with a notebook.
A serious one.
Blue cover.
Every meeting, she wrote things down.
Names.
Dates.
Promises.
Deadlines.
The school learned quickly not to give vague answers.
“We’ll monitor it,” they said once.
My mom looked up.
“How?”
They answered better after that.
She also contacted a local parent advocate named Alicia Grant.
Alicia helped her understand policy, student rights, discipline records, and what schools owe children after documented bullying.
I did not understand all of it.
But I understood this:
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My mom was no longer asking the school to care.
She was making them document whether they did.
