Michael Bryce

I was glad to hear the story about the young man who was accepted to Harvard law school. However, I was disappointed, and somewhat angered, to hear the disparaging and insulting way in which the hosts referred to special education students and handicapped students. I am also glad his ex-convict coworkers helped him as much as they did. Maybe if they also had to manage a classroom of 30 kids, make lesson plans, keep track of the students with individual plans, devise tests, score tests, prepare students for standardized tests, interact with parents and document everything they did as his teacher had to do, they would not have been able to help him as much. I do not know how he behaved in school or what his grades were like, but I do believe his teacher was trying to help him. I am in no position to say the teacher did the wrong thing by considering a special education route for him. It does show that students can excel in spite of their past.