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" ... I suspect Amir wouldn’t have lasted long at Success. But at his school, he was able to make valuable contributions to classroom discussions. One day, when the class was learning about the birth of democracy in ancient Athens, he provided a definition of fairness after a couple of his classmates had tried and failed. After the teacher put a complimentary note on his desk, his behavior improved markedly. On another occasion, when the class was discussing the human excretory system—a topic Amir, with his irrepressible fondness for pee and poop jokes, could have been expected to torpedo—he rose to the occasion. When the teacher reached the part of the read-aloud that said urine was cleaner than saliva, it was Amir who asked thoughtfully if that meant you could drink urine. ... "