Chapter 15
The Hayes Education Fund changed completely.
No single relative controlled it.
Teachers could contact administration directly.
Parents could not secretly withdraw children from supported schools without independent confirmation.
Child education money sat apart from operational funds.
Slower.
More annoying.
Good.
One senior man complained:
“Too many checks.”
I answered:
“A five-year-old lost forty-six days of school because we had too few.”
He stopped.
Miss Harper joined the advisory group once per quarter.
Not because she understood Mafia politics.
Because she understood children.
Useful skill our leadership lacked.
Elliot never knew any of this.
Good.
His education should not become his burden.
He only knew school became normal again.
Lunchbox.
Homework.
Friends.
Complaints about waking up.
Perfect.
One evening he came home angry because another boy read faster.
I waited for him to say he was bad at reading.
He didn’t.
He said:
“I hate Tyler.”
Healthy.
May you like
We discussed not hating Tyler.
Progress.
