Many of the 2, 500 runners who completed the race between Dallas and Fort Worth at the annual Texas Stampede for Children's Medical Center Dallas last November were surprised to get a cold beer at the finish line.
Most of the rest are shunted off into special schools for the mentally disabled or else drop out of normal school before they are 15 years old, many of them defeated by bullying and homework that is hard to finish in cold and unlit homes.