Walker By: Tom Walker   In this heartwarming historical educational piece, Tom Walker gives readers a glimpse into the world of public special education, with its many rewards and challenges. He shares insight into the way it grew via trial and error – and a lot of patience, compassion, and good humor, from its infancy in the 1970s up through the 1990s. When Walker started teaching, he began writing down funny things that happened in the classroom. One day, he was reading with Stephanie, one of his students. She became tired and irritated. She looked up at him and said, “Walker, put a sock in it.” She had a frontal lisp, and instead of saying sock, she said “thock.” Walker hopes his book will reflect some of the humorous as well as encouraging times he experienced in and out of the classroom over those two decades.