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Foothill High School student overcomes learning disability
via InsideBayArea.com
By Robert Jordan
Staff Writer
6/16/2009
PLEASANTON - The labels were supposed to get the best of Nicholas MacLean. After all, lazy, unmotivated, problem kids are not supposed to graduate and certainly not ones that enter high school with a reading level below second grade.
Four years ago, MacLean's thoughts of hearing his name called and being able to accept a high school diploma seemed more fantasy than reality, but that was before he found the Barton Reading program.
On Friday, in front of family and friends, MacLean was one of 580 Foothill graduates who received a diploma.
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