I’m Sorry Your Dad is Dead:A Collection of 4th Grade

Condolences

Edited by Roger Horn

I’m Sorry Your Dad Is Dead:

A Collection of 4th Grade Condolences

Thank you Mr. Moore & the Dodson Elementary

4th grade class of 1986-1987

Edited by Roger Horn

Roger Horn, Roger Horn Jr., Chasity Horn

Summer of 1986

St. Louis, Missouri

! The first day of my 4th grade school year I couldn’t shake the feeling that my life was about to take a turn for the worse. A summer filled with joyous memories, swimming, sports and friends had come and gone and as I stood at the entrance of Dodson Elementary School my lone summer fear had become a reality; I’d been assigned to Mr. Moore’s class. How dare the powers that be assign me to this man who the previous year reprimanded me for misbehaving in the hall, as though I were one of his students. My pleas to my mother to have me reassigned were met with the promise of changing me under the stipulation that I at least give Mr. Moore’s class a shot. Well, I stayed in his class and that became one of the best decisions I have ever made. Mr. Moore was not only a great teacher, but the following letters written by my fellow students at his request were key to helping me heal after the death of my father.

BIOGRAPHY

Roger Horn is a documentary / ethnographic filmmaker currently located in Los Angeles, California, and formerly of Nashville, Tennessee and Cape Town, South Africa.

www.Roger-Horn.com