It Takes a Village (by Vittoria Spadafora)

I can remember one day, driving to Gabriel's daycare from work to attend Gabriel's daycare graduation only to get a phone call from my spouse saying that the supervisor of the daycare handed him Gabriel's graduation certificate, saying that he should take Gabriel home because it would be too much for him to handle. My spouse, being an immigrant to Canada from a communist country didn't realize that he had the right to have his son attend the graduation and allow him the opportunity to celebrate this milestone with his peers. By the time I could actually get a hold of the supervisor, as she was in attendance at the graduation, the ceremony was already over. I simply got an apology and was told it was a bad judgment call.

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