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Stevie Munson's mother. She works hard to send Stevie to the private Brookshire Boys Academy, and saves money buy buying Stevie large shirts that he will grow into over time, but which leads to Stevie getting bullied. When Stevie tries to escape getting bullied by bullying other kids, his mother drives him to go and apologize to his victim.
Stevie's mom Quotes in Look Both Ways
The Look Both Ways quotes below are all either spoken by Stevie's mom or refer to Stevie's mom. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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3. Skitter Hitter
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“Not that I’m not glad you’re washing your own clothes, but detergent and bleach ain’t free,” she’d say. And what Stevie couldn’t say was, I’m sorry, but there’s a boy in my school drawing on my clothes, because then his mother would say, I don’t send you to private school for boys to draw private parts on your private uniform that you still have to grow into, and Do I need to call the principal? and Stevie didn’t want to hear none of that. Stitches, remember? Maybe even ditches. Besides, Mr. Brock, the principal, already knew. He’d seen the pictures and words and all he ever said was, Boys will be boys.
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