Board Chief's Daughter Made Me Bark; My Powerful Family Exposed

My dad worked the front gate of our high school for ten years. When the principal called him a guard dog, he just bowed his head and said, You're right, sir. When students threw trash into his security booth, he silently swept it up with a broom. The whole school called him the old turtle. My mom worked the lunch line in the cafeteria. Her hands shook every day like she had Parkinson's. When students knocked her food tray to the floor, she crouched down and picked up the grains of rice.