This 14 year old is my hero
It was 8 p.m. I was in the middle of an exciting meeting. It was a 500 person face-off between a group of parents and an obstinate California school board.
I did not want to miss a minute.
A lawyer friend of mine wrote me a message that a 14-year-old kid needed a few tips on getting by maskless. We texted back and forth, then the lawyer told me to just call the kid.
I pulled away from the meeting I was at, and it was so worth it.
The kid had been kicked out of another school board meeting. I don’t know how many 14-year-old kids care enough to even go to a school board meeting, let alone to go there and get kicked out for not wearing a face mask.
The kid and I talked it through. We get his mom on the phone and talked it through.
Before I know it, the kid was going back in to the meeting to face off the mask Nazi who threw him out and locked the door behind him. This is what I heard over the phone:
Nazi: Where’s your mask?
Hero: No.
Nazi: You need a mask.
Hero: Not me.
Nazi: Then get out of her.
Hero: Don’t touch me. Thanks.
Nazi: Those are the rules.
Hero: They are not the rules.
Nazi: You aren’t getting into the room.
Hero: Thanks, this is good enough.
The 14-year-old hero’s effort had paid off. He made it into the building and was content listening to the meeting from the doorway of the meeting hall.
It didn’t stop there, though. The control freaks wouldn’t leave the kid alone. The pipsqueak couldn’t have been 5-feet tall, and they weren’t putting up with his insubordination. They wouldn’t just let him quietly listen to the meeting from the doorway. He faced off with 3 more adults, similarly, and with me still on the phone. One of them called the cops on the 14-year-old. Before all was said and done, however, a room of immovable adults, responded to the voice of reason and moved out of this 14-year-old hero’s way.
The 14-year-old wasn’t just listening to the meeting, he hadn’t just made it into the room and done so maskless, no, the 14-year-old was standing maskless in the room addressing the school board.
Everyone bent to his will.
And the whole time that cop, who had been called on him, was quietly watching him.
There was an unmasked police officer outside listening to every word that the kid said, and afterwards the cop approached the kid, looked down at him, and delivered a shocker that our hero probably wasn’t expecting out of this tumultuous but victories night.
The cop looked down at him, reached out to grab the kid’s by the hand, shook his hand, and told him to keep standing up for what he believes in!
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Allan Stevo