Give Tim Collier an A.

"It's like taking a child and saying your score on is who you are and what you're about," said Vicki Smith, principal of Adams Elementary.
Patricia Miller, a sixth-grade teacher at Salt Lake City's Edison Elementary:
"You're not going to get success from a feeling of failure, Talking about failing all the time isn't going to help TIM with HIS upward ability."

Column Name: WILLIAM RASPBERRY
Section: OPINION
Publication title: Tulsa World. Tulsa, Okla.: Aug 25, 1999. pg. 17
"embrace HIS specialness."