Moreover, Martinez says, the ultimate evidence that the district did not hold his disability against Brown lies in its willingness to hire him at Hillsborough High. Brown, citing the negotiations, declined to comment on his discrimination claim. But he allowed a reporter to spend two days in the windowless, cavernous classroom in a side wing of Hillsborough High School where a photograph of Brown with Stevie Wonder is perched on his desk. Brown teaches students at Hillsborough High with behavior problems who have trouble learning in a traditional classroom. Brown is the first to admit military order has no place in his classroom.
Students tend to mill about.
Many are hyperactive and find it difficult to sit in their seats for more than five minutes without jumping up, dragging chairs across the room, requesting to pet Brown's guide dog, Lynn. Some people think control is quiet and kids in their seat. Just because they are walking around, that does not mean there is a lack of control. His blindness, Brown maintains, plays no role in the freedom he allows his students. These kids are too expressive for their own good.