Baby-Faced Vigilante

Photo by Maurício Mascaro

Three of my students have been tried for murder. Kyle Rittenhouse, from all I’ve seen, would have fit in well in my English classroom.

My kids had committed crimes before being adjudicated to my facility, though murderers are placed in higher security facilities. All my students who went on to commit murder believed that they were doing nothing wrong. This was a war and casualties were necessary. They were raised to see their…