Rochester Teacher-Triathlete Takes On Alcatraz, All for Rett's Girls
All the while, Brian Dalton's eighth-graders are learning an important lesson in compassion, charity and the possibility that they can help cure a cruel disease.
Between the spelling tests and the sci-fi writing assignments, Brian Dalton is teaching his eighth-graders an important lesson that's hard to find in any standardized school textbook. It's a lesson about compassion. About charity. And about the extraordinary possibility that what they are doing could, someday soon, help cure a rare childhood disease. The disease is Rett syndrome, a neurological disorder that affects about 10,000 girls worldwide. It robs its young victims of the ability to talk and walk and feed themselves. Rett girls can't write a note to their best friend or style their own hair or hug their parents goodnight. Those closest to it have described Rett as autism, epilepsy, Parkinson's disease and cerebral palsy — all in one …
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Joshua Raymond
9:28 pm on Monday, January 14, 2013
Dr. Zumsteg and the RCS Board of Education are honoring Brian Dalton tonight at the BOE meeting. more ›