Bad school memory- from light to heavy

silvervestersmom
Sat, 15 Nov 2008 13:54:34 +0000

My oldest son was a troubled child. He has a chromosomal disorder that has plagued him his entire life. It wasn’t diagnosed until he was an adult. In the meantime, despite psychological testing, IQ testing, every kind of testing but chromosomal because no one ever thought of it in those days, it was a mystifying situation. He looks normal.

Elementary school wasn’t bad, middle school and high school were nightmares for him. And, sadly, for his siblings who followed. Many teachers, recognizing our last name, tried to make my other kids miserable just because they came from the same family. I could never understand how these people could not differentiate and give the younger kids the respect they deserved and earned.