A boy told my son, “I’m not allowed to hang out with people like you because you might have coronavirus.”
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with a Vietnamese American woman in Southern California. The conversation has been transcribed, condensed, and edited for clarity by Aaron Mak.
This happens the Wednesday before. So as soon as he talked about what happened at school on Friday, he immediately starts crying and tells me, “Oh God, Mom, am I going to die?” And that’s when I got really upset. I don’t need my son to come home thinking he’s got the coronavirus and that he’s going to die. It was heartbreaking to even hear him say that. The amount of emotion that he had when he was telling me and crying. It was not something you want for your son to ever have to hear.
When my son calmed down, I said, “I’m going to tell your principal.” And he’s like, “Oh no, I don’t want to make it a big deal. Are you going to tell him it’s me?” I said, “I’m not going to say who, but I’m just going to let him know that this kind of talk is not acceptable at the school.”
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