Bijan Khalili explores how finals season is for teachers.

One parent whispers, “That retarded child needs to shut up.” Every audience member in the music auditorium during my orchestra concert glared towards the young boy who wouldn’t stop clapping and making high pitched noises. By the end of the concert, everybody knew that the boy who banged his head when the music got too loud, or cheerfully shouted during the middle of a song when he got excite...