I call your attention to the parenthetical comment “(Boston University, where disabled students have demanded concessions that endow them almost with the status of a separate species, is perhaps the prime example.)” in your Jan. 18 editorial “A judge blows a chip shot.”
It would appear that your staff editor “blew a cheap shot” at individuals with learning disabilities.
The Cove School, established in 1947, teaches strategies that will enable our students with learning disabilities to return to the mainstream. We do not, however, “cure” learning disabilities; today’s child with LD is tomorrow’s college student/LD adult, making him not “a separate species” but, indeed, a person with special needs.
Your negative remarks are most disheartening. The power of the press, the highly respected Chicago Tribune, has shirked its responsibility to educate and inform its readers by comparing the physical disability of golfer Casey Martin to the learning disabled population.
