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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DS has dyslexia. The schools were unable to provide appropriate instruction to teach him to read. If it were left up the school system, [b]he would be illiterate as a high school junior. [/b]

The appropriate instruction isn’t a hidden secret. It’s readily available.[/quote]

Wow. I like to think that the experience of having a SN kid makes people a little more careful of how they think/talk about others but clearly not. FYI my uncle who is a high school janitor is a voracious reader.[/quote]

I think you may have misread the post - PP was saying that their child would not have learned to read, still, in high school, had she left it to the school. Your uncle learned to read and loves to read! That’s a testament to good schooling - everyone learns to read and can enjoy a life of literature, regardless of employment. My FIL was a janitor and voracious reader, too. My dyslexic son would not have been able to read if we hadn’t hired a private tutor, though, despite all our fancy jobs and relative wealth.[/quote]

The sad thing is, disability or not, LOTS of kids are graduating US schooling unable to read well or at all. The data from 2019 shows only 37% of 12th graders were proficient at reading, and proficiency is a low bar. 
https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/reading/nation/achievement/?grade=12
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