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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I moved my severely dyslexic DS to a private school after his public elementary school teacher mocked his writing in front of the class and would not post something he laboriously hand-wrote up on the wall with the work of the other students because it was too messy. He's a resilient kid -- he had to be -- but after years of hearing "you are lesser" from the public schools, that was the last straw.

The private school saw a brilliant child with a reading disability and acted accordingly. In contrast, the public school saw, and treated him as, a failure. Watching my previously beaten-down child soar has been emotionally wrenching, because I can see just how badly he was treated at the public school, and how many kids suffer just like him. He has turned into a confident reader and writer, and genuinely loves school. The private school has changed the course of his life. The entire experience has made me a supporter of income-limited vouchers, because other children should have the ability to escape, especially kids with SNs. It is heartbreaking and flat-out wrong how many kids suffer like my DS did, but who can't escape.

Caitlin Flanagan has a long history of being a shoddy and untrustworthy writer, but this article goes beyond her usual trolling drivel. I wonder if the Atlantic did any fact checking at all, maybe not because they seem to be more into truthiness rather than truth these days. [/quote]

That is awesome.  I was on a ClubHouse talk about how to fix our education system last night and a point was made about how the one size fits all model created in industrial times doesn't work anymore.   Kids need to go to schools that meet their needs and interests and strengths.  Not everyone is the same type of learner so through different types of learning styles together and teaching with one learning style is a disaster.[/quote]

PP here. Yes, the biggest win for my DS was being in an environment that recognized his learning profile as a strength, not a weakness. It has literally changed his life. [/quote]

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