A True Underdog Story!
Growing up with Cerebral palsy was a challenge, but I overcame so many obstacles in my life. The doctors diagnosed me with cerebral palsy when I was six months old. When I was three-year-old my mother got me a chalkboard where she wrote words out so I could learn how to read them. My mother could see I was smart and understood everything that was going on around me. In school, I had a lot of struggles throughout my years. By the time I entered high school, I was only at a third-grade math level and couldn’t even fully develop sentences. My math and writing skills shouldn’t be where an average high school should be. Meeting Mrs. Towe was a true blessing meeting, the Knox County Special Education Teacher, who took me under her wing. She made sure that I received the proper tutoring I needed to improve my academic skills. Math was difficult for me to learn since I couldn’t write to work the problems out on scratch paper as other students could. It took me two years to remember my multiplication tables. I had a hard time remembering my multiplication tables sometime I wanted to give up so many times, but Sheryl always told me to suck it up buttercup. Sheryl Hamrick was Ms. Towe’s teacher assistant she got me where I could remember my multiplication tables. She continuously drilled my multiplication facts Hamrick usually fed me my meals every day she ever went over my multiplication tables while I ate my lunch every day. After I was…
