Park City High School student, Nicholas Coleman, provides a compassionate response to the January 20, 2016 letter by Bruce Margolis.
“Furthermore, I do not have any learning disability myself. In fact, it may seem obscure as to why I’ve written a response to Bruce Margolis’ blatantly invalidating editorial published on January 21, 2015, “Must All Disabilities be Treated at Public Expense?” but I digress. What I do have, however, may simply be referred to as a “heart.”
Over the span of my life, which admittedly has only been 17 years thus far, I have come to meet and befriend so many unique individuals. If one were to look upon the student body within our high school, it would be near impossible to distinguish which of my peers have a learning disability, and which do not. Why? It is because those with learning disabilities are not parasitic insects, as Mr. Margolis so elegantly alludes to, but rather sources of inspiration. It is within this diversity that we grow, not diminish. I’m not weighed down by my peers — I am motivated by them each day.”
