Embracing youths with special needs

Re “Special friendship,” Nov. 8

As I read this article, I found myself getting goose-bumps. It’s great to know that teenagers with special needs are getting support from their classmates. I have been put in a situation just like other students in which they feel afraid to approach a person with disabilities.

But now that Mira Costa High School in Manhattan Beach has opened a club where everyone can go on trips and engage in after-school programs, students can learn that we are all the same on the inside.

MONA SHEMTOUB

Woodland Hills