I Was Always the Weird Kid the Teacher Didn’t Like. Now I Have a Chance to Save Someone From That Fate.

Care and Feeding I can’t just watch this happen. Aug 16, 20268:00 AM Photo illustration by Slate. Photo by AaronAmat/iStock/Getty Images Plus. Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Care and Feeding is Slate’s parenting advice column. Have a question for Care and Feeding? Submit it here. Dear Care and Feeding, I (an adult) just started taking martial arts classes, and I’m uncomfortable with the way the instructor treats one of the other students. It’s a mixed teen/adult class, and one of the teenagers, “Chris,” regularly gets singled out in a way that seems really wrong to me. I’ve only been three times so far, but in two of those classes the instructor has made comments such as, “You can hit Chris, it’s