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[quote=Anonymous]We know more. 30 years ago, my DD would have been considered a bad student. Now, we know she's dyslexic.

If we were a poor family, there's a chance my DD would not have been diagnosed because she did ok in elementary school, because she was very good at masking her struggles. Things would have fallen apart as she moved along, and she would have been considered uncooperative, or uninterested, or being a teenager, rather than having reached the end up her ability to mask her LD and behaving in an entirely predictable way in a system designed to fail her. But since we're UMC, she goes to good schools, with teachers who have the time and space to notice things other than children who are living lives of trauma, and with parents who could sit with her to do homework and notice red flags, and get her tested, and find out she has a learning difference, and then work with the school, as well as independently, to provide appropriate supports. That's not how it should work. Teachers shouldn't be drowning in dealing with traumatized kids making it harder for them to recognize or support kids with milder problems. Parents should be able to spend time with their children to help notice problems. Testing and supports should be available to all.[/quote]

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