A group of determined moms band together to create the first public dyslexic school in the largest school district in Am | dG1fTHgwdUJlQzNPUzA
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00:00Let's do this one and then we finish. Don. Don't. Don't. Hear. Have. Have. To. King. Come.
00:10Mm-hmm. My son, he cannot read. He cannot write. I was told there is not a program
00:18in the public school system that's gonna teach your dyslexic kid reading and
00:22writing. The teachers just gave us homework and said do it.
00:26Dennis gave up. And I was like, how is this possible?
00:35In a city like New York, in a school system that is over 70 percent children of color,
00:40the fact that a major portion of them are just never gonna read is offensive to me.
00:48All of us have kids struggling with this. If I don't help him,
00:52I know what lies ahead in this country for him.
00:5860 to 80 percent of incarcerated youth have reading and writing disabilities.
01:04You should have to learn to read when you're locked up.
01:11I'm part of a team that is trying to build the first ever dyslexia school.
01:15What I need is a green light. Okay.
01:17It's not a secret what will support them. The research is there. We know that it works.
01:32The people are patting us on the head and, you know, saying good job,
01:34but no one's giving us the green light. We have to make our own noise.
01:39Education means emancipation.
01:46Neurodivergence matters. The answer to cancer might be in a dyslexic brain.
01:54This can be revolutionary for the entire country if we do this right.