Sometimes, the world presents us with moments that challenge our perceptions and force us to confront our deepest values. Recently, I found myself navigating such a moment when a teacher at my son’s school (not my child’s teacher) chose an unconventional method to connect with the students: by dressing up as my son, complete with a name tag that read, “Hello, my name is…”
At first, the image of an adult donning a school uniform with a name tag that showed my son’s name, especially in a structured environment like a school, struck me as odd, to say the…