[00:00.22]When I was superintendent of schools in Palo Alto, California,
[00:04.97]Polly Tyner,
[00:06.16]the president of our board of trustees,
[00:08.04]wrote a letter that was printed in the Palo Alto Times.
[00:11.69]Polly's son, Jim,
[00:12.99]had great difficulty in school.
[00:14.60]He was classified as educationally handicapped
[00:17.75]and required a great deal of patience on the part of his parents and teachers.
[00:21.53]But Jim was a happy kid with a great smile that lit up the room.
[00:25.02]His parents acknowledged his academic difficulties,
[00:27.85]but always tried to help him see his strengths
[00:30.40]so that he could walk with pride.
[00:32.22]Shortly after Jim finished high school,
[00:34.07]he was killed in a motorcycle accident.
[00:36.37]After his death,
[00:37.35]his mother submitted this letter to the newspaper.
[00:39.88]Today we buried our 20-year-old son.
[00:42.37]He was killed in a motorcycle accident on Friday night.
[00:45.81]How I wish I had known when I talked to him last
[00:49.10]that it would be the last time.