I'm going broke keeping my son in school supplies and shoes these days. It's not that he's wearing them out at an alarming rate.It's that they're being stolen. At the beginning of this school year, Evan needed new shoes.He had to have what was cool - Airwalks.He's generally a really good kid so this was a kind of pre-middle school reward. We got him the Airwalks.Sixty bucks. We also got him a combination lock for his gym locker so when he changed into his gym clothes he could lock up those prized, cool Airwalks. A few weeks into the school year the lock refused to lock anymore.We had another one at home - we got the two-pack - but Evan forgot to tell us his lock was broken. That is, of course, until his prized, cool Airwalks were stolen out of his unlocked gym locker. Ouch. Within a week, Evan - now wearing last year's too-small, beat-up tennis shoes - leaves his binder and science book sitting out.They get stolen.
GARY GERARD, Times-Union Managing Editor- | July 28, 2016
