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Who Speaks Best for Matthew?
The day after Christmas in 2002, two Fairfax County police officers pulled onto Jacqueline Simchick's snowy Clifton cul-de-sac and handed her a court summons. The charge? Failing to educate her son. The retired Army officer had taken 14-year-old Matthew out of public school that summer. After five years in a program for mentally disabled students, he could say only a dozen words and could not count past six. Michael Alison Chandler, The Washington Post, Sept. 2, 2009

 
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