Dinakar Singh

Many are perfectly accessible, but I'd get calls from friends on the board saying, Lieutenant, it's just not going to happen.

The ostensible reason, I think, one school said she wasn't bright enough.

Crazy.

Turned out to be maybe not bright enough for them, but bright enough to be straight A's at Yale and all that kind of stuff.

They didn't know what to make of it.

We had one school actually asked to see her medical records and talk to her doctor.

Oh, my God.

I mean, guys, you know, that's absolutely fucking illegal.

But you had to do it because it might be illegal.

But unless I tried.

I mean, so when she would start in school.

we would send up write-ups to other parents basically saying, here's what SMA is, here's what to make of it.

But in any event, her nursery school, she went to All Souls, which is the interior church school.

And initially, they didn't want to take her and they said, look, there's a great cerebral palsy school you can send her to.

They're like,

Yeah, that'd be great, except she doesn't have cerebral palsy, guys.

This is a totally different disease.

But eventually, I think they felt badly and they took her and she had a great experience.

But you're supposed to go and volunteer to give sermons as members of the congregation.

And so I did.