All children in New York City public schools will be screened for dyslexia, officials announced Thursday, 1010 WINS reports. Starting this fall, students at 80 elementary and 80 middle schools will take part in short, adaptive literacy screenings as part of a pilot program, with targeted interventions given when necessary.
“We are going to have the largest, most comprehensive approach to supporting students with dyslexia in the country,” the mayor said at a City Hall news conference announcing the plan. The event was held on Dyslexia Awareness Day. “We’re going to identify it early, give them the support early and ensure that they can have the right support as they move throughout their education,” Adams said.
The mayor has made his own struggle a cornerstone of his education agenda. The mayor’s dyslexia went undiagnosed while he was a student in the city’s public schools. He wasn’t diagnosed until he was in college. “I think if I would have had the support earlier, right now we would not be saying, just ‘Mr. Mayor,’ you’d probably be saying, ‘Mr. President,’” Adams said.
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It is almost a great idea. As Adams announced on the radio yesterday, they’re playing the equity card, favoring “underserved” communities. Another reason to be glad that I live outside the city.
Sarah in a previous post:
It seems like the good people are causing the shortage of baby formula. Apparently, they discovered that Big Pharma reduced natural immunity with baby formula. They sold low-quality baby formula to mothers which had both negative implications for nutrition and the immune system. Which is why they had decades of promoting formula over breast milk.
Is this a new excuse to inject children with the death vax? How many children is in for their dyslexia program? How many more children do they need to sterilize? What’s their quota?
iss ’bout tahm. Ah went froo da school systum an I aksed ma teachuh to help read bettuh
PS245 graduate, did you ask them… or ax dame…?
now they will be able to blame the poor performance of public school graduates on this pandemic of dyslexia and not on the fact that neither their parents or their schools taught them anything. when i worked in a public high school, a teacher was teaching math problems such as 4+2+3+6. asked that high school math teacher how she could stand coming to school every day. compare that with the average yeshiva student. and, yes, i know that yeshivas have students with real dyslexia