boy with an unsafe homelife

his defiant attitude was obstreperous misbehavior unheard of and unseen in the sixties other third-graders stared at him in disbelief wondering what was wrong with him not realizing he was begging for interference help that was never coming tired of extra conferences his parents pulled their eight-year-old out of school not unheard of back in the day they kept him at home where he should have been safe but had never been safe even as a toddler he was reported missing a year later after a teacher called to check on him.