Cloudmother by Siobhan Harvey

When a child starts school, so too the
parents:

this is a truth Cloudmother can’t
escape.



Here are others – when a teacher favours
a child,

so too the parents; when a classmate
befriends a child,



so too the parents; when a label owns a child,

so too the parents. The mother most of
all.



The handwriting lessons that failed to
prepare her for life;

the teachers who saw careers in