I have no idea if the story is true or was invented for the benefit of sad, unloved kids everywhere but here it is.
A little boy came home from school one day, and his mother told him she’d received a letter from his school’s principal. She read the letter aloud for the boy, and this is what it said,
“Ma’am, your son is absolutely brilliant. We have no resources at this school to teach somebody who is obviously a genius. We believe you should take him out of school and educate him in a way that will suit his talent.”
The boy grew up to become Thomas Edison, the great inventor who created the light bulb, the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a plethora of other great inventions. After his mother died, Edison was going through her papers and found that old letter from the principal. This is what it really said:
“Ma’am, your son is retarded. We can’t educate him because he doesn’t have the intellectual capacity to learn. Please take him out of school and take care of him at home.”
P.S. Be careful when you share this story with others, though. I already made two adult men cry with it, and now one of them is avoiding me.
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