Finding friends

Thing 1 is gregarious, yet did not make friends quickly since we moved to this country. All the reports from the teachers said that he was social and friendly to his peers. But true friends? They remained next to none. His school separated him from his only real friend in Grade RR so that he would branch out more in Grade R. The start of Grade R was rather ugly: a boy taught my son a racial slur and another held him back from playing with another child because 'we don't play with the brown boys.' After the two hideous...