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Just found out that my 9-year-old is already an activist and organizer. His school is hiring a new 3rd grade teacher because the other classes are over capacity, so they plan to take a handful of kids from each of the other 3rd grade classes to make the new one. My son’s class was really sad to lose anyone because they’re all so tight-knit, so he had the idea to write a petition demanding that no students be removed from his class. Then he got every kid in his class to sign it as well as his teacher, their P.E. coach, the special education director, and any other kid or adult in the school he could make his case to. He then marched the signed petition (now a rolled-up scroll of pages because of all the signatures) to the principal’s office and knocked until she opened the door, so he could hand deliver it. He told me later, “it wasn’t exactly the same as when the Governor’s guys pulled their guns when y’all were protesting the death penalty, Dad, but it was still pretty awesome.” Goodness, I love this kid so freaking much.