A 19yo woman graduated from high school with honors even though she can't read
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Re: A 19yo woman graduated from high school with honors even though she can't read
#2Link to the CNN segment that this story was based on:https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/28/us/video/hartford-school-dist...
Re: A 19yo woman graduated from high school with honors even though she can't read
#3Missing context, she had severe dyslexia, wasn’t diagnosed til her final year of high school. Honors student who was able to use text to speech and record lessons to study them relentlessly after school. She cared about her studies. This is more of an indictment of our social system as a whole - teachers are overworked to squeeze out performance for the 90%, and cases like hers are the ones that fall through the cracks.
Re: A 19yo woman graduated from high school with honors even though she can't read
#4Missing context, she had severe dyslexia, wasn’t diagnosed til her final year of high school. Honors student who was able to use text to speech and record lessons to study them relentlessly after school. She cared about her studies. This is more of an indictment of our social system as a whole - teachers are overworked to squeeze out performance for the 90%, and cases like hers are the ones that fall through the crac…
I have a friend that can read, so likely not as severe as the woman in the OP, but wasn't diagnosed with dyslexia until college.
Re: A 19yo woman graduated from high school with honors even though she can't read
#5Missing context, she had severe dyslexia, wasn’t diagnosed til her final year of high school. Honors student who was able to use text to speech and record lessons to study them relentlessly after school. She cared about her studies. This is more of an indictment of our social system as a whole - teachers are overworked to squeeze out performance for the 90%, and cases like hers are the ones that fall through the crac…
Also it wasn't clear for how many years she had actually been in Hartford. I am not as familair with dyslexia treatment, in severe cases, what tools do school districts have to teach children to read and write?
Re: A 19yo woman graduated from high school with honors even though she can't read
#6Missing context, she had severe dyslexia, wasn’t diagnosed til her final year of high school. Honors student who was able to use text to speech and record lessons to study them relentlessly after school. She cared about her studies. This is more of an indictment of our social system as a whole - teachers are overworked to squeeze out performance for the 90%, and cases like hers are the ones that fall through the crac…
Nothing missing here. It should be impossible for a student to stay illiterate past the primary school without being diverted into special needs programs.
Re: A 19yo woman graduated from high school with honors even though she can't read
#7Missing context, she had severe dyslexia, wasn’t diagnosed til her final year of high school. Honors student who was able to use text to speech and record lessons to study them relentlessly after school. She cared about her studies. This is more of an indictment of our social system as a whole - teachers are overworked to squeeze out performance for the 90%, and cases like hers are the ones that fall through the crac…
I have a friend that can read, so likely not as severe as the woman in the OP, but wasn't diagnosed with dyslexia until college.
It is amazing how much people can mask, both from others and from themselves. One of my cousins is color blind (not sure which kind) and it wasn't diagnosed until he joined the navy as an electrician tech. He was utterly unable to read resistor color codes. I'm not sure how he made it that far in life without noticing; I'm guessing he implicitly was relying heavily on context cues (eg, the green stoplight is at the bottom).
Re: A 19yo woman graduated from high school with honors even though she can't read
#8>A 2019 report from EdBuild, which promotes equity in public schools, found that majority non-white school districts get $23 billion less than districts that serve mostly white students.Minority enrollment in Hartford’s public schools is at about 90%.
A much more useful stat from that report is here:
>For every student enrolled, the average nonwhite school district receives $2,226 less than a white school district," the report says.
https://www.npr.org/2019/02/26/696794821/why-white-school-di...
Re: A 19yo woman graduated from high school with honors even though she can't read
#9Missing context, she had severe dyslexia, wasn’t diagnosed til her final year of high school. Honors student who was able to use text to speech and record lessons to study them relentlessly after school. She cared about her studies. This is more of an indictment of our social system as a whole - teachers are overworked to squeeze out performance for the 90%, and cases like hers are the ones that fall through the crac…
> teachers are overworked to squeeze out performance for the 90%, and cases like hers are the ones that fall through the cracks.
However, the opposite is true, at least in California. Special needs students receive exceptional attention, often double that given to others. Each has a tailored written plan, unique to their needs, along with a detailed report reviewed by a team of specialists at the end of every trimester, significantly adding to the workload.
Meanwhile, exceptionally bright students receive no extra focus whatsoever.
Re: A 19yo woman graduated from high school with honors even though she can't read
#10Missing context, she had severe dyslexia, wasn’t diagnosed til her final year of high school. Honors student who was able to use text to speech and record lessons to study them relentlessly after school. She cared about her studies. This is more of an indictment of our social system as a whole - teachers are overworked to squeeze out performance for the 90%, and cases like hers are the ones that fall through the crac…
> teachers are overworked to squeeze out performance for the 90%, and cases like hers are the ones that fall through the cracks. However, the opposite is true, at least in California. Special needs students receive exceptional attention, often double that given to others. Each has a tailored written plan, unique to their needs, along with a detailed report reviewed by a team of specialists at the end of every trimest…
> “special needs students receive exceptional attention, often double”
this zero-sum understanding of what IEPs are makes me sad, and i feel bad for your kid’s’ teachers
> “Meanwhile, exceptionally bright students receive no extra focus whatsoever”
perhaps consider a child with a parent who considers them exceptionally bright _is_ receiving “extra focus” just… outside of the classroom