What I Learned About Special Education

I didn't think of myself as having polio, or cerebral palsy. But what became clear was that the system itself didn't have great expectations for the students. A school inspector called Charles Stratford came into my classroom one day when I was pushing ten. He smotted something that he thought was interesting and had spoken to the class teacher. And they moved me up a couple of classes into the hands of this formidable woman called Miss York. She was kind of sewed up tight like a turkey, you know, that she was trust in the clothes she wore and seemed very buttoned up. Anyway, the upshot of it was that I took the 11 plus and I was the first