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@futurebird @KarlHeinzHasliP My daughter is severely dyslexic and goes to a specialized private school for it. Expense as hell but at 13 she is finally reading.

As a parent, the difference was amazing - a curriculum designed for her and her disability. For every kid there. They can toggle reading levels so each kid can engage in the same topic but not be forced to work through their disability. History isn't a reading lesson in disguise. Same with math.

I've seen what carefully crafted education can do.
How transformative it is.

And how modern schools are designed for the easy to teach. Kids like my daughter are almost intentionally pushed out. I must be a bad parent who didn't read to my kid enough. It is ok if they fail, learn to fake it, to cheat because they weren't taught to read. Because they were harder to teach and it cost too much.

Public education hasn't served my daughter. Still, it saddens me for the single standard deviation kids that their education may be as awful as it was for her.

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