Special Needs
From 1966 to 1969 — grades 1 to 3—I attended the Adams School. Occupying three separate buildings, in the East 30s near Lexington Avenue, it was a “private school” for roughly 400 students aged four to 21 facing learning or emotional challenges. In reality, the school received most, if not all, its funding from the New York City Board of Education, which at the time lacked sufficient special-ed facilities for its pupils. I have never been entirely clear on the disability I suffered from or why the New York City Board of Education would not accept me into its regular school system. The range of impairment among the school’s lower school students ran the gamut from severe to little or none. Unlike most of my classmates, I had learned... Read more...
