S3E27: Equipping Parents to Face the Challenges of the 5Ds

Want to improve your understanding and advocacy for dyslexic children? Discover the solution to achieving that by diving into the complexities of dyslexia in the education system and uncovering the impact it has on daily life. Let's explore how to identify dyslexia early in children. If people are pushing the science of reading, it’s important to know that it must be paired with a variety of interventions to truly meet each child’s unique needs. Get ready to be empowered with the knowledge and tools to advocate for dyslexic children effectively.

 

The key moments in this episode are:

00:00:02 - Introduction and Conference Experience 

00:04:15 - The Influence of Agendas in Medical and Education Worlds 

00:09:29 - Catching Buzzwords and Agendas 

00:12:25 - Diversity in Reading Programs and the Science of Reading 

00:13:18 - The Misunderstanding of Dyslexia 

00:14:43 - Education and Technology 

00:16:20 - Understanding Dyslexia as a Teacher 

00:18:21 - Integrity in Medical Practice 

00:22:44 - Dyslexia Advocacy and Education 

00:26:10 - The Influence of Persuasive Personalities 

00:27:47 - Lack of Understanding and Advocacy for Dyslexia 

00:28:33 - Importance of Advocacy and Parental Involvement 

00:30:11 - Trust and Vigilance in Education 

00:31:45 - The Work of the Sopel Foundation

 

Transcript:

00:00:02
Welcome back to Word Blindness, Dyslexia exposed. This is Juliet Hahn here with my co host, Prince Sopol. How are you? I'm not going to answer that. Yeah.

00:00:12
So I will preface. That's a word that. Big words. Yeah. To start this.

00:00:18
Yeah. I'm going to do. I'm going to lay it all out in the beginning. So I am a little tired because I didn't get in until one in the morning and I was at a conference, not sleeping. You just partied all weekend?

00:00:30
That's it. Apparently. That's what my family even thinks. I'm like, okay. No, just because I have fun with the people I work with doesn't mean I party.

00:00:38
No. I worked my ass off, but having fun at the same time. But that's what everyone's goal should be. Seriously, that's what the goal should be. No, it's supposed to be.

00:00:49
What do they say? It's not work if it. If you enjoy it. Exactly. And even if you think about your events, the same thing.

00:00:55
It looks like fun. And everyone like, are you really working? I'm like, yeah, I'm really actually working. Right. But it's the same thing, so.

00:01:03
But yes, it is. Full on. Because then Hahnny came and surprised us at the end. And then it was like everyone's fam. Like, all the families I got to meet, all the kids of the.

00:01:11
Some of the people that work with us. So it was awesome. But I didn't get in until 1:15 because delays and that. We didn't. You know, the Panthers won.

00:01:18
It was not supposed to happen. You live in a beach house in town, middle of nowhere. I know. That was. Yeah.

00:01:26
There was fights on the plane. There was literally, as we were getting. Oh, people were so angry. Literally. It was so.

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It was JetBlue. The flight got changed, then the gate got changed. Then the flight got changed again, then the gate got changed back to, like the original thing. So people. But then it was like 20 minutes delayed, so everyone was kind of like, clearly not in a good mood.

00:01:47
And these two ladies, it was like a. I was like, ready to go. And they're like, one of them had a. One of them had C. But I don't think either of them had a. And they were fighting. Fighting.

00:01:57
And everyone was just trying to get on the airplane, and they were fighting and fighting. And I was. And I actually said. And then I was like, they're gonna turn around. What's your definition of fighting?

00:02:04
Oh, they were. Well, okay. Yes. Let's. Let's clarify.

00:02:08
There was arguing. Yeah, arguing. Arguing. You're ugly. You're fat.

00:02:13
Yeah. They basically. Your husband doesn't want to sleep with you.

00:02:19
Those things. No, that. Nice hair. Yeah, it's curly. The gates people were just kept going, ladies, you're not up yet.

00:02:27
Please go back to your seats. Ladies, you're not the calmest. I was like. But they were like, nah, she is. Look at.

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Look at her. Look at her thing. They were yelling, this is not right. And holding everyone up. And I was like, I'm.

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I'm going to take. I wish I was there. No, you would have. I took a calm, deep breath and said, we're all just getting to the same space. We're all just going to the same space.

00:02:48
Can we just let everyone else. Bored. And you just. They didn't hear me. It probably was a good thing because they probably would have turned around and hit me.

00:02:55
And then when we got on the flight. Oh, then we can sue. Then the airport gets involved. Not now. We're good.

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Yeah, right.

00:03:03
So it was tense, so let's just say. And then JFK had too many people coming in, so then we had to circle and I don't. I don't. I just. New York.

00:03:15
Oh, New York. Yeah. And then we land and everyone again was all pissy. You love that place. Well, you're from the Jersey too.

00:03:24
Jesus, what do they call it? White trash people? Is that what they call. Excuse me, Jersey Shores? So Jersey dirt.

00:03:36
Oh, okay. That's what we've heard. My bad. Jersey dirt. And there's only certain areas.

00:03:42
I'm not from Jersey dirt. And I love where I'm from outside of Philly, which. Another. Your favorite place.

00:03:52
But that is not why we are on the podcast today. I was prefacing to say that I might be a little off, but we have something really serious to talk about that kind of clicked for me, even though I shouldn't say click because I've always been aware. But it hit me or sat with me in a different way this weekend than it has. And it's. It is the medical world, the education world.

00:04:15
It's. It's kind of just the world. But seeing it now that I know so much about this world, it, I think is what really clicked. Like, I was like, wait, that doesn't make sense. And I know you're being paid, so like, let's all like pause for a second.

00:04:33
And then on top of the science of reading, as that episode will come out. And as we've said, there's multiple things that people need to learn. And when you're pushing one agenda. If someone's pushing one agenda and they keep pushing it, like, look under the covers because they're usually getting paid or under the hood. What is the term?

00:04:53
Look somewhere. Look deeper. I don't, I don't know. Jersey dirt. But you know, you said no now after listening because, you know, obviously I catch things that 99 of people don't.

00:05:09
Right? Obviously. You know, in the dyslexic world, I catch things that most people don't because they're non dyslexics that. That are. Are.

00:05:25
Are pushing. Are pushing, you know, certain things. You know, obviously Science of reading is. Is the, is the biggest one and that's why I'm able, Able to catch it. And you know, it's.

00:05:37
What's that, what's that group?

00:05:46
Parents for Reading Justice.

00:05:50
It's like phonies like that, right? You know, you don't have dyslexia, your husband's Rich, you've got 500 followers on Instagram, but you're gonna go to Congress and change laws.

00:06:08
Fuck you. You know, but it's interesting what caught my attention when you said you, you're starting to understand when you're at those conferences, doctors, you'll picking whatever product that they're talking about now you can hear certain buzzwords and you know, they're getting paid. Mm, yeah. And. And it's interesting because in the education world, I definitely clicked in a.

00:06:35
Like, I've always known that, like, okay, you know, that they have some tutoring thing, you know, or the. In coaching world, you know, when someone's pushing different things, you know, okay, there's a business behind it. And so it was just an interesting kind of. Oh, wait, they keep saying that. And I know they're pushing that and I know that like, if you really look in their science, that product doesn't really work because now I know different things and.

00:06:59
Yeah, go ahead. No, and, and. And that was it, you know, is if you're not in, you know, again, you know, the, you know, regenerative medicine, obviously the world you're in and dyslexia, you know, what Inside Note. So you catch the buzzwords, you catch how they, how they deliver certain things. You know, obviously for the longest time when, when we started the podcast and stuff, you're like, what do you mean?

00:07:25
What? Like, how can you say that? How would you know? Obviously I'd end up being right just because I know this world Inside Note. And the parents that are coming to this, your kids struggling, whatever, they don't know it so it's hard for them to look under the hood because they, you know, it's like they open the hood of an.

00:07:53
Of a car, they don't know what they're looking at. It sounds good. Yo, let's. Let's, you know, obviously, big one that we get all the time in this world. Dyslexic University.

00:08:06
Oh, Richard Branson. Too many. So many great things. Because he's doing, you know, Dyslexia University for dyslexia. Okay, let's stop.

00:08:17
You know, how many times I have to, you know, break it down for him? He's. He's doing for dyslexia. You've got that much money. But are you helping kids?

00:08:24
The kid in the chair. Kid in the chair, Obviously, that's our. Our number one focus. Whenever we talk about the kid in the chair. Is he helping any kid in the chair?

00:08:33
Nope. Can he save every kid in the chair with the amount of money he has? Yep. Does he care to. No.

00:08:41
I think he's using Dyslexia University as a Hiring, recruiting. Hiring for his companies. That's just me. Because now he's able to pick up dyslexic. So because it's university, older, but with that much money.

00:08:56
Are you helping the kid in the chair? No. Parents reading Justice. Are you helping the kid in chair? No.

00:09:02
You don't have it. Yep. Yo, we're all different. And, you know, I don't know, obviously, the regenerative message, but it was. It just.

00:09:11
I mean, it was interesting when you said you were able to catch those. The words, those buzzwords, the things that they were saying at the conference for the first time in a different way. All right. And now you're starting to resonate and catching those things in. In different ways, in different lights, and then before.

00:09:29
And that's what the world we live in when it comes to this. Yep. And. And it is. And this is why we do what we do and everything you just said, I was like.

00:09:36
I don't know if you noticed. I was like, oh, I want. I'm so excited to say something. It is about the knowledge, and that's why we tell and talk about different things in different lights. Because when you have the knowledge and you're able to ask a question in a certain way, the person that is receiving it, that is having an agenda that it's about.

00:09:59
It's about money. It's not about the cause they're going to know that, you know, some of them are not, because some of them are not that. That quick. But they're going to know. And it's just.

00:10:09
That's why people don't want the massive to know certain things. In the medical world, it is huge. And in education, it's huge. And I'm sure it's actually like that in a lot of different worlds, but those are the two worlds that we're in. Right.

00:10:23
But when you have. I'm sure, you know. Yeah. Elizabeth, in the mortgage world, I'm sure. Probably the same thing.

00:10:27
Right? I'm sure in every industry there, there is that, you know, when Hahn's world. I'm sure. But this is our two worlds that we know. And that's why so many people hate me when it comes to the dyslexic world, because I call their out.

00:10:45
I don't care if you like me. I. I care to take you down in the most ugliest fashion. Mentally, physically, emotionally. Because that's what you're doing to the kid in the chair. Yeah.

00:11:01
You know, most people don't, you know, there's always, you know, what would you say? You always get a method to your mazes. But, you know, play offense. I know what you're doing. And that's, you know, the education world.

00:11:17
We've talked about this all the time. There's a few things. Relatability, knowledge is power. And we do this. The hard part is when you try and look under the hood.

00:11:27
Like you said, when you don't have. When you're running in fear. My kid, I just found out. My kid's struggling. Right.

00:11:35
Like it's. It's the worst feeling in the world. So you go and you go and look for help. You just. All they say can help me, you know, that's what I, you know, it's catching them before they're in fear so that they can look a little bit deeper in the hood and get some understanding and realization of what is being said in, you know, in different places now.

00:12:06
You know, dyslexia, it's the brain.

00:12:10
Pretty sure there's not one brain out there.

00:12:15
So there's not one reading program that's gonna. Gonna work. So all the science reading, it's a cult. You know them all. That's not how this works.

00:12:25
Oh, it's. It's gonna help more kids. Okay, great. More is better than less. 100%.

00:12:32
What's was that alligator mouth? Isn't that to the greater than the less than. Oh, I love that game. Right? Oh.

00:12:38
Oh, that's not the game I know you're talking about. Yes, in math, in Matt but oh yeah, the hippo. Yeah, yeah, that's what I was. The hungry, hungry hippo the other day. Yeah, she, she found a Facebook marketplace.

00:12:52
Her mom like an old McDonald's drive thru. She wanted to be as a kid, but it was. So then say that, hey, right now, yo, science reading can help more kids and what we have out there. Okay, great. Say that, right?

00:13:07
Don't just push it. And just don't just push it. Don't go and change laws where, you know, that can't help everybody, right?

00:13:18
Science of reading. This is how you teach. This is how they learn. You don't understand. You're not dyslexic, so you don't understand.

00:13:24
You'll never understand us, but you want to teach us. How the fuck does that make any sense? And as I've said to you so many times, right, like, I think it starts in a good place and then it ends up going in where it's like, it's all about the money. And the thing that I think is so important to think about is these, I really think these people actually, they make themselves believe that this actually is because they. When you're starting to push an agenda, like, think about how powerful the mind is, right?

00:13:59
How powerful the mind is. When the mind is that powerful, you then start saying it. Then you almost are so con, like, you, you, like, you're like, I know it, right? Because I, I can sell really well. Think about people's personalities, the ones you can sell something.

00:14:13
If you can sell something, it doesn't mean that it's the right product. Think about the person. Ex wife, huh? Right? She can sell how psycho she is to anybody, but no 100%.

00:14:28
But they don't have it. At the end of the day, they do not have it. Yo, what's that video they're talking about? You know, education. You know, 100 years ago, there's horse and carriage.

00:14:43
Right now we got driverless cars. No, look at the cell phone, right? The cell phone, whatever that thing was. And you know, the rotary phone to. Now we got cell phone, right?

00:14:55
Now, you know, now like, look at education. So that everything's involved. Education's gotten worse because the people who don't have it are running it. And it's, you know, would I. Did I send that to you about Illinois?

00:15:16
There's 30 schools. Yeah. Not one, not a single student can read at grade level in 30 Illinois schools. And 22 of them are in the city of Chicago. I mean, how is that like.

00:15:36
And that's where I'm going With the teachers union. Right? Yeah. Right. You know, Chicago, they just passed and it was like a 10 billion dollar, you know, teachers union.

00:15:47
Right. It's not about the kids. None of it. Like, 30 schools. 30 schools.

00:15:54
Not one kid can read at grade level. And they're blaming it all on Covid, aren't they? But, you know, and that's because it's the people who don't have what we have that are running it. And that's why, you know, I talk about, you know, obviously, you know, got together when we started this. You and I obviously connected because we have it.

00:16:20
Right. So we. We'd say things the same way. Yeah. It was supposed to just let me have no idea what you're talking about.

00:16:28
And that's okay. Right. And she understands now, you know, better now. But that's a teacher, like, now. She was at Costco.

00:16:36
They've already got the Halloween mats out, so we're already talking about school starting here in a month. Month and a half are, you know, maybe less than that. School starting here and ours, we and you guys, you guys haven't got out yet. Finished. Penelope just had another final today.

00:16:55
But, you know, so it's, you know, probably our first, you know, our first four dates were all Mexican. She, you know, wanted to torture me through Mexican, see if I loved her enough to go for Mexican every night. But it was trying to understand who I was. Right. That's what you're dating.

00:17:13
Right? There's no time for that as a teacher. No.

00:17:20
And we're labeled instantly as the bad kid not paying attention. So how long does it take to understand you don't, you know, understand, you know, go back to the dating world. Right. How. What's it taking year for to understand somebody or, you know, what they're about?

00:17:38
A teacher has got what? So the fact that no understanding about dyslexia, dysgraphia, dyscalculia, you know, dyspraxia and ADHD. The five Ds that we talk about. Right. So again, as much as I rip on teachers, I'll defend them.

00:17:57
How they supposed to learn about a kid when they got a hundred other kids? They can't. Yeah. And I want to take it like so, because I want to see what your thoughts are. And I'm going to bring it back to the medical world, and then we're going to tie it into the, like, how it kind of translates and why, for me, I was like, oh, my God, like, it's just so interesting.

00:18:21
And because I now been in this world as we've talked about. And I know the buzzwords. I know the different things. I know what technologies really work. I know how the human body needs certain.

00:18:33
Everyone has, you know, different things they need. So when you're pushing one product, like, this is. It's the same thing, right? Same thing with reading programs. But the thing that I say, and I said it to someone and they were like, yeah, really?

00:18:45
Why, why, why doesn't it work that way? And I'm like, I have no idea. So these doctors are getting paid by companies, right? It's the same in the advertising world, right? You see people like, you're getting paid for something, so you're pushing it.

00:18:56
Celebrities are pushing, you know, whatever product out there, right? Yeah. Okay. That's what, That's. That's what.

00:19:01
That's how it is. It's. It's all about money. So if you were a doctor and you really cared about your patients, okay, Right. Like, so the kid in the chair, patients.

00:19:10
This was like, why? All of a sudden, I was like, oh, my God.

00:19:14
If you know that there's technologies that are better or things that are actually better for your patients, why wouldn't you use that? So then you can make a better clientele, right? You have people that are coming to you that trust you, that love you, because they're like, okay, they. They know what they're doing. They.

00:19:34
They've done their research. It's not about them getting paid for a product instead of getting money from a company that, you know is not doing what it says it's doing. It's not good. But you're getting paid there. And then you're just pushing through patients without really that true connection.

00:19:50
You can make a better. And there was a couple doctors that were there that I know actually do it the way I was talking about. Because everyone was talking about, like, we would love to have a practice like X, Y, and Z. You can never get one of their employees, never get a patient, because they treat their patients and employees the way they treat themselves. They give them the best products because they do the research, they do the continuing education, and they also work and do it on themselves.

00:20:13
They're in that age group of their patients, right? So they could live the learn stuff just like we talk about with, like, psychologists, like, you know, or you going into therapy. And you're not like, these doctors have done what the patients are going through. So it's almost like this connection. So why wouldn't you want to build a practice of integrity and knowledge?

00:20:35
But, like, what you. Instead of Just being like. Most of the world don't. They don't have that. I know.

00:20:40
And it makes. It makes me crazy. They don't have that. Yo, let's go. The education, you know, Go with education, yo.

00:20:49
Sucks, you know, idea. You know, they've around for 75 years, they haven't done anything. No. You know, this project for justice, for Reading, Right? Just because your husband's rich, you know, now you're 65 and your kids are in the 30s, you're gonna do that.

00:21:06
It's an all. It's. It's an ego, right? It's most of the world. The world is the way it is because they don't have that, right?

00:21:16
When you find somebody that has that, you keep it. It's hard to find, yo. It's. It's really hard to find. How many people said, well, we're gonna help, you know, help the foundation.

00:21:26
I'm gonna do this right now. Where the fuck's wrong. Where'd he disappear to? Chained up in his basement by his wife, yo. Could be because people don't.

00:21:37
People don't care, you know? And you talk about the doctors. Addiction, like opiates, right? They hand out, you go for surgery, they'll give you Oxy. 7000 Oxies.

00:21:49
Even when you. Even when you say, don't give it to me, right? I've been addicted. They still do the opposite. They'll.

00:21:56
So they don't care, you know, Food industry, all of it, right? It's a food industry. Pump all this stuff that's for us. But let's. And.

00:22:04
And it's. That is what is when people say, there's so much wrong with America, though, these are the things that are wrong with America. This is what's wrong is everyone's ass backwards. We could go all day long on that. And that's why we talk the way we talk about the dyslexic world, right?

00:22:20
It's one of the most corrupt businesses in the world. It's even more corrupt than Ukraine in Ukraine's most corrupt country in the world. You know, one more second.

00:22:32
But that's where dyslexia is, right? You've got the Shaywitzes at Yale. That's where the. The gospel, right, for dyslexia. They don't have it.

00:22:44
Ida, who runs it, you know, they're. They're. They don't have it. None of those people, you know, that. The reading.

00:22:52
The reading or Reading League, you know, they don't have it. You know that those individual, like, I reached out for here in Illinois that wanted to partner up with the foundation. Right. I'm like, yeah. So who on the board, you know, is dyslexic?

00:23:08
He's like, you know, actually, I'm the only one. I just got on the board. Okay. None of you guys have it. Yep.

00:23:14
Like, yes, we don't have 62 degrees. Great. But we had 62 years or, you know, whatever that is. 48 years professional. Yeah.

00:23:25
I know more than you do. Yep. And there is a good, like, there. We're not saying, like, not having. Mixing of things like what you're just talking about.

00:23:32
Right. Like on a board or on these things. Yeah. You need all different brains. But when it's run by only one certain, like, oh, we're all scientists doing these research projects, like, it's okay.

00:23:46
That's. There's no relatability, as you always say. There's no. It's. It's.

00:23:52
It's sad and there's so much that needs to be changed. But this is why we do what we do on the podcast, because we want people to think and know. And when they go into an IEP meeting, 504, they go into school, they talk to a friend, they have more understanding of their own rights, whether they're dyslexic or not, whether they have a kid that's dyslexic, but you have an understanding. And so you can ask the questions to the school, because the school is not going to tell you what's best for your kid. They're going to tell you what is on their agenda and what they have to do.

00:24:21
But we. You can push it. You can be like, nope, sorry, that's not true. I can do that. And.

00:24:26
And it only comes with kind of diving in blind. And it's scary as. And there's a lot of people that won't do it. Well, you take a look at, you know, there's whatever 40 states now, whatever. Oh, they test.

00:24:40
You know, they test from kindergarten to grade three. Dyslexia. Yippee do.

00:24:47
Everybody's like, what? Isn't that great? No, it's not. Yo, you're wasting your money. One, who's teaching it?

00:24:54
Who's. Who's diagnosing it? The school. Which is wrong. You know, Two, Wrong.

00:24:59
Three is, even if you find out the kid's dyslexic, the teachers have no clue how to teach you, so what good is it? So you're wasting money, right? So it's. They're getting paid. They're passing this bill.

00:25:11
That's a Buzzword. All testing for dyslexia. Great. So people think that there's things in New York. They're right.

00:25:17
So that's what the. Was it the governor or who was that in New York trying to pass that member or something? Yeah, like a dysgraphic dyslexic. Yeah. Guaranteed.

00:25:31
That's. Now that's just money in people's pockets. How do you pick dyslexia and dysgraphia? Yeah. I think he's been trying to do.

00:25:41
Nobody understands what those are. Right? Looks good, right? It's full of shit, you know, And I'm not, you know, it always seems, as we talk about, I'm always a debut. I don't know.

00:25:50
I'm the realest. I understand this world. Right. You can test every kid in the world. That's obviously our ultimate goal.

00:25:57
But step two is teaching them. But the teacher have no understanding about them. So how can you teach something? It's like you go into the conference this weekend, you know, for the first time, and you stand in front of everybody trying to teach everybody. Right?

00:26:10
That's not how reality works. Right. And again, if someone's a good salesperson or a good personality, oh, there's so many. They. They come across like they are really knowledgeable.

00:26:22
I mean, I again, just went through it because I was like that doctor. I believe everything they say, but I actually know that everything they're saying right now is not correct. But they're so dynamic. And so, you know, they really believe what they're saying. And so then they have a whole bunch of people listening, being like, oh, right.

00:26:39
Oh, I want to try that now. Because they did it. And I'm sitting there going, wait a second. I'm not even from this world. And I know that that product's been being used in hospitals and wounds 30 years ago, and it wasn't good then.

00:26:52
So why are we talking about it in the aesthetic world? Because someone had a buzzword or someone's getting paid by, you know, and so it's, it's. It's so interesting. So that's where you have to. Even if someone sounds like they really know what they're talking about in any of any realm, Mortgage, right?

00:27:08
Real estate, education, medical. You have to ask some questions. If you are like, I don't understand it. And there's not a lot of people are not going to. Because if someone sounds like so, you know, like they really know what they're talking about.

00:27:22
Hiring an advocate, you know. Hi. You're hiring an advocate, right? Yeah. How?

00:27:29
What Neuropsych Test. Get, you know, did you spend your money in testing? So there's. There's a lot to it, you know, ask questions, you know, obviously don't, you know, don't believe. But at the end of the day, when it comes to this world, 99.9 of the people are not dyslexic.

00:27:47
So they're telling you and your kids what to do and how to feel when they have no understanding. Like, it's like me telling a black, black, you know, man how to feel. I don't know, right? Like, that's exactly 100%. What it is, is I'm going to go down the south side cog and I can tell every one of those block you how they feel, right?

00:28:11
And that. And that's so much of it when people are pushing things, right? And it's like, you don't. How are you put. Just no, you don't know.

00:28:18
You have no knowledge of it. And it is. It's not going to get better until people start really standing up. And, you know, it's always gonna. There's always gonna be a show, but people standing up and just having that knowledge.

00:28:33
When you're going into these meetings, when you're. Again, if the school is like, oh, we're gonna test your, you know, your son in kindergarten or your daughter in kindergarten, and you have a family history of dyslexia, and you know that there could be. And maybe that kid has memorized and figured it out already and they're gonna. It's not. It's gonna be lost, right?

00:28:51
And then they're gonna be able to catch it for some time if they do find out. Maybe, you know, they test, they say, okay, they're dyslexic. Okay, step two is the teachers have zero clue how to teach your kid.

00:29:03
Nobody but. But the kid, the parent. Remember that one mom, you know, what was. What did the suit. What did the special ed teacher say to that one?

00:29:10
Mom, you're. You're exhausted. You're exhausted. Yeah. And she's dyslexic and got four dyslexic kids and was like, I'm not.

00:29:17
You're just not doing the right thing. Like, you're not helping my kid. But so my point is when I'm saying that like that the next stitch, but like, so a parent, you get the kid tested, it comes back. But like, that's not the end of it. Like, that's the start of it sometimes.

00:29:31
And that's where sometimes. Then you have to be like, okay, Now I need to see what's happening. Now I need to see what you guys are doing. What are your credentials? Where, you know, where did you get your education?

00:29:41
Now, there are some states and there are some schools that do this correctly, or I shouldn't say that they do it better than others. So, like, you might be sitting here listening and being like, you know, we've had a really great experience. I've been very fortunate. That's awesome. Because there's some people that do have a great experience.

00:29:57
Some people think they're having a great experience, and then you hit a ceiling. And then you realize, oh, I was never having a great experience. I just thought I was because no one was complaining, and everyone seemed happy there. And that's where it's hard. Like, as this mom.

00:30:11
You're exhausting, right? Because she was like, no, there's something not right. You guys are not doing it right. But this is how the district always does it, right? It's all black and white in education.

00:30:19
They. And everything really should be gray because each person is different. And again, you could have a teacher that knows what they're doing. And you're very fortunate one year, the next year you could be completely screwed. So if you sit back and are like, oh, I'm good.

00:30:33
Like, the school's got me. Don't ever. And it's hard for people like myself that trust people. I trust people first until they show me not to. And sometimes going into these kind of worlds, education, medical, where you really need to not trust first, it's hard when you're a trusting person.

00:30:54
So, like, as a parent, you just have to kind of think of all these things.

00:31:00
Yeah, it's. You know, everybody says education hasn't gotten better. Well, look who's running it. Bunch of nimrods.

00:31:17
Nimrods. What? Retards.

00:31:23
I was being PC. I'm not. I know you're not. I don't do that. I know you don't.

00:31:29
Because it's a kid in the chair. Because it's a kid in chair. I know, I know. And I'm being light to it. Nimrods.

00:31:34
But whatever. Just not good people. And we're gonna. We're gonna leave it there. But you guys, I mean, sopalfoundation.org lots of things are happening.

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