Education
Kari Litz of Wheat Ridge, Colo. with a photo of her son, Dominick Miller, who is currently incarcerated. Miller began receiving school behavior warnings and suspensions as early as kindergarten, and had an encounter with the police at school in eighth grade. “To this day we’re waiting on some place that won’t give up on him,” Litz says. Photo by Joe Mahoney / Special to The Colorado Trust
Kari Litz can barely keep track of the number of times her son, Dominick Miller, was kicked out of school. There was his first preschool, which said he was too aggressive and noncompliant. A suspension in sixth grade for not listening to the principal. The moves between three separate middle and high schools and various after-school programs.
Litz, who lives in Wheat Ridge, Colo., adopted Miller from foster care when he was 15 months old. “He struggled from the day he arrived at our house,” she says. “I wore a lot of spaghetti in the first few months because it got thrown at me—more so than you expect with a toddler.”
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