L A S T S U M M E R I met a twenty-one-year-old high school senior who was struggling to push through his last few credits of high school. He was working with two tutors through a small pilot program targeting students at risk of dropping out. Facing an emotional disability and embarrassed in his summer school classes full of tenth graders, his frequent outbursts meant he was spending more time in the office and on suspension than he was in class. I met him through a fortunate accident. On one of his trips back to class after a suspension, he happened to overhear the program manager, who.