JumpStart by Robb Armstrong for October 16, 2021

Noo!! We have to wait until Monday!!

Sounds like somebody dodged a bullet.

Kenny has no idea of how bad things can be.

I’m not sure about the wisdom of telling a kid that he has to (be brave) in the face of potentially devastating news.

And it might have been better for Kenny to hear the news via someone who’s right there snd can provide support – the principal, maybe, or a favorite teacher. But Delray probably never got to experience that kind of consideration when he was a kid, so he doesn’t know that to pass it on.

Kenny…if Delray says what I think he’s going to say, school is going to seem secondary…

I know it’s supposed to be the punchline, but Kenny’s reaction is unbelievably shallow.

He’s escaped and he could be out to get you.

I guarantee that he hasn’t died (at least, I’m having trouble thinking they’d get rid of him that way), but still…it’s touch and go right now…

you’re telling your adopted son that his birth father is hanging by a thread on a phone?!? man,there"s some great parenting…

“He got beat up and we are not sure he will survive.

And he saw where you just got a B- on your last calculus test."