S4E1: The Unseen Struggles of Dyslexia

In this episode of Word Blindness, Dyslexia Exposed, hosts Juliet Hahn and Brent Sopel engage in a lively discussion that covers a range of topics from travel challenges to the importance of dyslexia awareness in education. They share personal anecdotes about their experiences with travel, the frustrations of navigating educational systems, and the impact of testing on students with learning differences. The conversation emphasizes the need for better understanding and accommodations for dyslexic students, as well as the importance of advocacy and support for families dealing with these challenges.

 

Chapters:

00:00 Introduction and Light Banter

02:54 Travel Challenges and Experiences

05:59 Dyslexia Awareness in Education

11:31 The Impact of Testing on Students

17:09 Navigating Educational Systems

22:08 Conclusion and Call to Action

 

Transcript:

00:00:06:23 - 00:00:14:14

Speaker 1

Welcome back to word blindness. Dyslexia exposed. Coming in with season four. We're coming in hot.

 

00:00:14:16 - 00:00:20:03

Speaker 2

So you're coming. Let's just clarify before we get this thing going. So we know.

 

00:00:20:05 - 00:00:21:05

Speaker 1

You're a little spicy today.

 

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Speaker 2

Tell it. This is my hat. Say that.

 

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Speaker 1

Your ad does not say that. And that.

 

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Speaker 2

Makes.

 

00:00:29:16 - 00:00:35:08

Speaker 1

Me laugh so hard. I knew that that's what it was. But since I'm slightly blind as we know.

 

00:00:35:10 - 00:00:38:06

Speaker 2

I walked to the grocery store yesterday.

 

00:00:38:08 - 00:00:41:01

Speaker 1

People were people dying, laughing.

 

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Speaker 2

We were up, ordering, some, Elizabeth loves hard salami. So we're getting three quarters of a pound of a hard salami. And, this guy can. He couldn't even get get the hard salami out of the out of the fridge because he was dying laughing as I was not expecting that hat. But it's good.

 

00:01:02:02 - 00:01:05:09

Speaker 1

It's good. You put a smile on people's faces.

 

00:01:05:11 - 00:01:08:00

Speaker 2

This place is a very special place.

 

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Speaker 1

Well, and so anyone that's listening on Spotify or any of the podcast players right now, they're going, what does it say? I'm not going to read it, because now you got to go over to the YouTube channel and you got to, like.

 

00:01:18:23 - 00:01:24:13

Speaker 2

You're going to see what it says. Please be patient. I'm a fucking retard.

 

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Speaker 1

And you can call yourself that. You're not following anyone else. You're calling yourself.

 

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Speaker 2

It did not Penelope say. I can say that.

 

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Speaker 1

She did say. She said, since you're diagnosed with.

 

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Speaker 2

I am one, I can tell myself I'm more.

 

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Speaker 1

I can say that. Yeah.

 

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Speaker 2

I'm not calling anybody else retard. I'm not calling you a retard. Actually, I'm calling you retard for not flying or driving to San Diego.

 

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Speaker 1

I was already on the plane. I couldn't get off.

 

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Speaker 2

I was it was like I would never be doing this. I yeah, I do. We ought to start with your little one. 48 last 48 hours of you and Danny is it's it might be on the news.

 

00:01:59:08 - 00:02:07:12

Speaker 1

It is 100% all right. Yeah. But here's the thing. This is I. Because I have Gracie Abrams tomorrow, and I.

 

00:02:07:12 - 00:02:09:18

Speaker 2

Know you're the super fan. I forgot about that.

 

00:02:09:23 - 00:02:27:06

Speaker 1

Yes. Right. So, Grace Abrams, if you're listening, I actually, because my daughter. This means the world to her. And I made a promise to her. And I was not going to let her down. So the reason why I did not go right to San Diego, which, yes, I should have. I also, from Georgia to Chicago, I should have learned my lesson right?

 

00:02:27:06 - 00:02:38:15

Speaker 1

I should've went right to Chicago from Georgia and not gone home insane all day in airport. So airports in me. I was like, know, I've been actually so blessed. I've been traveling so much. Everything's been really good the last couple trips.

 

00:02:38:17 - 00:03:02:02

Speaker 2

Well, I remember traveling in the summertime. Let's just be clear. Yeah. You know, storms pop up, right? Right. Travel airlines obviously overbook. People are traveling like you were traveling for what you went did lion and then to Chicago for Truman's basketball. People are doing that for, for vacations. So I know this new thing is traveling is new for you.

 

00:03:02:04 - 00:03:03:07

Speaker 1

As much as I'm doing. Yes.

 

00:03:03:10 - 00:03:26:11

Speaker 2

That's what you're doing, you know, it's you, you know, now it's you're traveling a lot more for, you know, for work and and your kids, than you did before. It's a different animal in the summertime. You know, in the in the months of June, July, August when school's out, you you have to plan for delays. And if you don't get had delays, you get.

 

00:03:26:12 - 00:03:26:21

Speaker 2

Amen.

 

00:03:26:23 - 00:03:50:01

Speaker 1

Right. In the beginning, I didn't write right. So I've been traveling since the last week of June. Every week, pretty much Wednesday through Sunday. No. In between. And oh Jesus Christ, that's my child. Because now mom's home, so everyone's like, oh wait, I can call no, honey, I'm working today. Okay.

 

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Speaker 1

So.

 

00:03:51:12 - 00:03:58:12

Speaker 2

And then and then you decide to live, like, four hours away from the airport. So then you got to take, like, a four hour car to the airport, and.

 

00:03:58:12 - 00:04:23:14

Speaker 1

Someone took my overhead bin, which took everything out of my body. I actually did an Instagram story on it, and I called the person a fucking loser. I, I the my biggest pet. Okay, I have a lot of pet peeves, but one of the biggest that that because it doesn't, it takes a lot to get me angry. I'm I'm, I'm pretty okay, but when I get angry, it's hard to reel me back in.

 

00:04:23:14 - 00:04:38:11

Speaker 1

And I had to because I was so tired. It took everything in my body. The flight attendant was also pregnant, so I was like, okay, I'm going to be okay. But on the way out, someone, a woman tried to take mine who was in DC, and I was like, I'm sorry.

 

00:04:38:11 - 00:04:47:20

Speaker 2

I'm, you know, can you reel this back in? What do you mean, it's yours? So I got my seat.

 

00:04:47:22 - 00:05:07:07

Speaker 1

It's about my seat, the overhead. You should be around yours. Not put backpacks and jackets and other things. When you know that people have roll ons, right? You shouldn't go. If you're in 30 C, you should not be taking a overhead in the front. So why are you one of those that does that?

 

00:05:07:09 - 00:05:11:07

Speaker 2

So I try to get on the plane right at the beginning.

 

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Speaker 1

Yes. You know.

 

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Speaker 2

So that I get an overhead if I need one.

 

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Speaker 1

Yeah. No this would have stress the fuck out of you.

 

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Speaker 2

The anxiety I get that I wouldn't get an overhead bin. Yes, but to to to that point is. Yeah, I'll throw wherever. Now because. Yes. I don't see you when you, when you flip it that bad it doesn't say hey for B how are you doing today.

 

00:05:41:11 - 00:05:48:21

Speaker 1

No. But if you're in the front people in the front now not right there. But if you're all the way in the back, you should not be taking a front.

 

00:05:48:23 - 00:05:51:13

Speaker 2

What if there's nothing up there? That's the only whole.

 

00:05:51:15 - 00:06:09:20

Speaker 1

Well, that's different, but that's where also the flight attendants, like everyone, go about. Everyone should be going around their thing. So I did not get on the plane because they changed it 35 times. And then they were like, I sat down to get something to eat and they're like, oh, now we found an earlier plane. We're leaving in 15, 20 minutes or whatever.

 

00:06:09:20 - 00:06:15:13

Speaker 1

And I was like, motherfucker! Which all again, totally fine. And we don't have to get into this because I clearly.

 

00:06:15:17 - 00:06:36:10

Speaker 2

I really, I, you know, it's amazing you when we talk the the, The rules of certain things that I've never read before. Yeah. And the rules of where to put your overhead bin and whose is whose. I don't, but I traveled, I do air miles my day.

 

00:06:36:10 - 00:06:41:05

Speaker 1

And you said you had your, like, when you traveled. It was fucking different than.

 

00:06:41:07 - 00:06:56:22

Speaker 2

When it was like, how many planes I've been on? Never mind. Not for the team list that we had. We found different other places. That's what I was talking I didn't know about. You know, I've never actually grabbed my ticket in the back. My ticket read the rules of where to put, you.

 

00:06:57:00 - 00:07:14:12

Speaker 1

Know, but it is common sense to me that if you were sitting in a seat, there should be 2 or 3 bins around you. So if I'm sitting in the front, I can't go all the way the back to put my luggage. So if someone from the back put their is above, fact. So there's no place for me to go and so then I have to check mine.

 

00:07:14:15 - 00:07:25:05

Speaker 1

So. But I also pay more to sit in the front. I'll sit in the middle. And I will do that because I'm like, I hate sitting in the back, where then I have to stand up and wait for everyone to go.

 

00:07:25:05 - 00:07:33:03

Speaker 2

It just my favorite is sitting in the aisle, last seat right by the bathroom and smell everybody. And the best part? It's just wonderful.

 

00:07:33:05 - 00:07:41:23

Speaker 1

So. But I will sit in the middle. I will sit in the middle and like the first 5 or 6 rows and I will if there's not there, I will go and find another flight.

 

00:07:42:03 - 00:08:02:09

Speaker 2

I was with I when we had to go to California for a funeral. You know, we both got in the middle and I had a middle seat. Yeah. So I, I'm like, you're skinny, she's skinny. She's got you guys got like six inches your side. I'm not guy coming down the aisle going, what the fuck. This guy is going to be in between right.

 

00:08:02:13 - 00:08:19:03

Speaker 1

Yeah. No that sucked. But that and that was a right a different situation. But that totally sucks. But I can't believe we talked to this much about that. But that was the end. And then I had to wait 35 minutes. And JFK, after being at the airport the entire fucking day for two days because I didn't have an over.

 

00:08:19:03 - 00:08:21:03

Speaker 1

I'd been because a douche took my spot.

 

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Speaker 2

Hey. Yeah, welcome to traveling. I know my husband.

 

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Speaker 1

Yeah, I know, I know, but it was.

 

00:08:30:21 - 00:08:35:22

Speaker 2

And people ask, you want to go on vacations? You miss traveling?

 

00:08:36:00 - 00:08:42:13

Speaker 1

No you don't. I actually, I do enjoy it. That part is. And then. Yeah, I.

 

00:08:42:13 - 00:08:51:20

Speaker 2

Enjoy getting plane friends. You come off with every fucking plane. Oh, I got a new plane, friend. I got a new plane friend. You have more plane friends and fucking planes.

 

00:08:51:22 - 00:09:02:22

Speaker 1

I actually have the funniest story about that and I can't share it on here, but, I do, and I know you don't believe me either. I do not talk first, I this is the consensus because I just.

 

00:09:03:03 - 00:09:06:19

Speaker 2

What do you think of that? I promise you, I don't have her ass off right now going.

 

00:09:06:20 - 00:09:21:21

Speaker 1

I know, I promise you, I don't. I have, I do not. What if someone does not want to talk? I'm very good at being like, I don't need to talk. As my husband and Danielle and my kids say that I come on and everyone can feel my energy that like, oh, this one wants to talk. So they usually start at first.

 

00:09:21:21 - 00:09:41:18

Speaker 1

If they want to talk, I typically, I promise you, I will bet millions I just got into this with Truman. He's like, there's no way. I was like, I promise you, you think that I start most conversations? I actually don't, and I know that sounds crazy. I promise you I don't. Then yes, I continue it, but I always will say, like, we don't have to continue talking.

 

00:09:41:18 - 00:09:43:02

Speaker 1

Like, if you want to just.

 

00:09:43:04 - 00:10:02:14

Speaker 2

Meet Elizabeth singing all very quiet. She comes home, but she'll talk to every fucking stranger, the stranger in the middle of the aisle. And what store was it? You know all about pizza? I'm like, how do you. How do you start talking about pizza? She's like, well, they they're behind me talking about pizza. So I turned around, join their conversation.

 

00:10:02:18 - 00:10:06:06

Speaker 2

But then you you don't want to talk to people, but you're going to talk.

 

00:10:06:08 - 00:10:07:12

Speaker 1

Because she.

 

00:10:07:12 - 00:10:09:00

Speaker 2

Talks about every stranger.

 

00:10:09:02 - 00:10:10:22

Speaker 1

Yeah, I like that order.

 

00:10:11:00 - 00:10:35:23

Speaker 2

I'm like, all right. Yeah. So let's get back to you on Friday. Yeah. I interviewed for a coaching job here, at a at a prep school, which probably was one of the top five prep schools in Illinois. You know, to be a hockey coach. And I met with the I don't know what they call a dean president boss.

 

00:10:35:23 - 00:11:03:04

Speaker 2

You know what? I don't know what they call. Yeah. The, big boy. He. Yeah, this one's got I think they got like, 500 kids. Like 225 of them. Yeah. Overnight. There's a lot of international kids. He had zero clue about dyslexia, and he had zero clue. That was that common. And somebody said to me, they're like, well, it doesn't affect him.

 

00:11:03:06 - 00:11:24:19

Speaker 2

Yes. Is it a prestigious. Yes. It you know, a lot of, while the kids there. Yes. They probably aren't as impacted, you know, as certain other places, but still not to know the stats.

 

00:11:24:21 - 00:11:28:04

Speaker 1

Right. It's crazy.

 

00:11:28:06 - 00:11:32:00

Speaker 2

Not at all. So it doesn't surprise me.

 

00:11:32:00 - 00:11:32:11

Speaker 1

It gets me.

 

00:11:32:13 - 00:11:53:16

Speaker 2

All right. Well, that's know that's kind of why I was you know, you're bringing it up is people always talk about the schools should know they don't. You know, you got 500 kids, right? You've got 20%, right. Not even is 10% because it's a higher end prep school. You're not as impacted. Okay. That's still a lot of kids.

 

00:11:53:18 - 00:11:55:01

Speaker 1

Yeah.

 

00:11:55:03 - 00:12:14:18

Speaker 2

You know, it's $65,000 a year for high school. And he had no clue. And you know, he grew up in it. His dad his wife works at the school in, Desert. And I don't know what the learning disorder.

 

00:12:14:20 - 00:12:15:06

Speaker 1

Right.

 

00:12:15:07 - 00:12:27:12

Speaker 2

So whatever the terminology that they used, you know, for that school. Yeah. That school, his, his, his wife runs it. Nothing. What?

 

00:12:27:14 - 00:12:52:05

Speaker 1

But again, it's what's sad is it doesn't surprise me. It's so frustrating. But it doesn't surprise me. And it's it's what's. I mean, it's just adding to what the problem is, where, you know, a. People don't realize that there's a different way, as you say all the time, that there's a different way to learn. There's a different way to do things that everyone has different wiring.

 

00:12:52:06 - 00:13:07:00

Speaker 1

And the fact that he didn't know, but he probably heard of it and was like, oh, people are successful. I'm sure he's had some kids that were dyslexic there that didn't seem like they struggled. And that's the thing that people miss all the time. Just because you can't see it doesn't mean we're struggling all the time.

 

00:13:07:02 - 00:13:19:18

Speaker 2

Well, I did, you know, I coached I did a, you know, ran a few practices and stuff last year for this team and helped coach a couple times. So I know I know the hockey team last year had 4 or 5 kids.

 

00:13:19:19 - 00:13:20:12

Speaker 1

Right.

 

00:13:20:14 - 00:13:40:10

Speaker 2

Just just aren't just specifically on a hockey team. And there's 20 kids, right? So that's our 20 now 20% more talk more exactly right there. Right. So, how can they get 20% right. And you're not getting you've you've got to pass these test like this is a high standard school. So these kids aren't you know, the hockey kids aren't getting in there just because kids you've got it.

 

00:13:40:12 - 00:13:43:06

Speaker 2

There's a standard that you have to me. Right. So there's like.

 

00:13:43:06 - 00:13:45:19

Speaker 1

An entrance exam I'm assuming. Yeah.

 

00:13:45:21 - 00:14:15:04

Speaker 2

Entrance exams and interviews and all that stuff. So it's still stolen right there. 20% of kids now. Everybody wants kids. And especially a private school like this, prestigious. You don't want you don't even know what impacts your kids the most. And they've got a mental health area, you know, because, you know, it's a boarding school, right? School you get half the kids are from, you know, different places.

 

00:14:15:07 - 00:14:25:11

Speaker 2

You know, a lot of them are international kids. Again, what's a number contributed bounce off number one contributor learning source. And they got no clue.

 

00:14:25:13 - 00:14:42:00

Speaker 1

And also, what took me back for a second is when you were talking about the entrance exam, trying to get into the school when a kid really wants to get into the school, and if they do struggle taking tests and all of that. So how much anxiety is on them trying to get into the school and the dean?

 

00:14:42:00 - 00:14:53:11

Speaker 1

Whoever doesn't have any thought because it's a procedure school. So he thinks, oh, people like that, no one gets tested, right? Like people get nervous about this kind of stuff and.

 

00:14:53:13 - 00:15:19:12

Speaker 2

Well, and then and that leads to, you know, on Saturday I end up doing it, you know, a golf event and, one of the union sprinkler fitters and 281 and their number is, all unions, they have to write a test, right, to get it. I found on Saturday they all got to write the same test, and you got to get a 70.

 

00:15:19:14 - 00:15:39:08

Speaker 2

The one guy and I was, I was talking to them like, how many of them are great in the field but can't pass that test. And the guy's a guy I know quite a bit. Right. And the one guy's like, I got a 71 just got passed, right. You know, it's so now we're talking. You, you know, a different level, right?

 

00:15:39:10 - 00:15:45:15

Speaker 2

You know, I'm like, why can't we figure out a different way to, to administer that test for those people.

 

00:15:45:17 - 00:16:04:06

Speaker 1

Right. And we've talked about like doing it orally versus the written just like the movie Blind Side. Right. But so many people can't think out of the box because it, and it's also because it's it. How much do they have to fight to get that accommodation for a kid. Or where do they have to go to figure it out?

 

00:16:04:06 - 00:16:22:09

Speaker 1

It's like, oh, well, there's so much behind it, but it's really not that difficult. It really is more simple than you would think. And it's people can't outside think about it. Oh hello. Making season for hello.

 

00:16:22:09 - 00:16:28:19

Speaker 2

Can I you say hi hi hi star.

 

00:16:28:21 - 00:16:34:05

Speaker 1

Oh my God. So cute. So, like, I don't want to be on there.

 

00:16:34:07 - 00:16:49:07

Speaker 2

She used to be a baby. For the first couple weeks. She'd sit in your lap and to sleep. Yeah, I go to the rank and, you know, she'd be sleeping. I talk to Elizabeth three saying, oh, yeah, she's still sleeping right in my lap. Now you can't get her to sit on your lap for half a second, right?

 

00:16:49:09 - 00:16:55:11

Speaker 1

Is it because she can't fit anymore so it's uncomfortable or she just smells around?

 

00:16:55:12 - 00:17:23:13

Speaker 2

She's a shithead. She really does what she wants. So typical woman, I guess. Right. So that par for the course? Yeah, yeah. Where is she? She loves to steal my clothes. Okay. I like and leave everything on the floor. I give my socks over here or like, right now. That was my pair. My hockey socks. You just was doing laundry.

 

00:17:23:13 - 00:17:29:18

Speaker 2

She's got her nose in the laundry basket and running off with my pants or my shorts or you. Oh.

 

00:17:29:20 - 00:17:34:02

Speaker 1

That's that's very cute. I love that, it's.

 

00:17:34:04 - 00:17:54:20

Speaker 2

You going in, dog. And you going from precious to to to to trade to unions. And the one guy, I was with was asking me about the socks. Yeah. You know, he's like, when I read, I start reading and I go right to the bottom of the page nine and I, you scan it backwards, and his wife's like, dude, what's wrong with you?

 

00:17:54:20 - 00:18:16:10

Speaker 2

Like, if you went to school now, they'd be diagnosed with something, you know? But he's like, what's the definition? Dyslexia. What? You know what? What is it? And he's like, I just got a 71 to pass to be a to, to be considered like. So you've got to get a 70. The thought of getting a 70 on a test.

 

00:18:16:12 - 00:18:42:06

Speaker 2

I don't think I ever only test. I think I ever got, you know, like a 70 above. Well, been for for Z. Like when I grew up. Was 50 was pass. So if I saw a 50 or a 51, I was like, fuck yes. Yeah. Now to get a 70.

 

00:18:42:07 - 00:18:47:14

Speaker 2

Yeah. I don't, you know, the anxiety just thinking about trying to get a 70.

 

00:18:47:16 - 00:18:52:11

Speaker 1

And here's, this is for the trades.

 

00:18:52:13 - 00:18:57:15

Speaker 2

So I, I think now 70 that's for everything I think doing well.

 

00:18:57:15 - 00:19:14:18

Speaker 1

But just having the test and period like the trades as I said like when Montgomery in high school because there was a part of the our high school that has an affiliation with the trade school, which is great, but they because of his IEP, they assumed they're like, okay, what does he want to study at Boces? And I was like, what?

 

00:19:14:20 - 00:19:29:13

Speaker 1

What are you talking about? I was like, he's not going to Boces. And they're like, oh wait, why? And I was like, he's not going into the trades. That's not where that's not what he wants to do. And they were like, oh, it would be much better for him. He gets to leave school and he gets to study like he can be an electrician or this.

 

00:19:29:13 - 00:19:42:11

Speaker 1

And and I was like, yeah, no, he's not like just because he has dyslexia or struggles doesn't mean he's good at that. And so again, they were just assuming this other thing and it's like.

 

00:19:42:12 - 00:20:04:20

Speaker 2

Yeah. Was you on the scene on that on Friday? I end up he met with the whatever team principal, whatever they call that. And then I had like four other people that had me. I could meet them for like ten minutes. It was like, you know, the joke was speed eight speed dating ten minutes. Now, met this other guy.

 

00:20:04:22 - 00:20:14:02

Speaker 2

I don't know what his title was. He's a guy. You know, I studied dyslexia, you know, I know what it is. I studied it in school. I'll make.

 

00:20:14:04 - 00:20:20:20

Speaker 1

How has it take you to not be like, okay, what did you study?

 

00:20:20:22 - 00:20:31:23

Speaker 2

So he. His job is to hire and key hires all the employees, like all the teachers, that kind of stuff, you know, at school.

 

00:20:32:00 - 00:20:54:13

Speaker 2

Yeah, I studied dyslexia. I'm like, oh, you did a. I didn't, I didn't say, I couldn't say anything. I only had, you know, I only had ten minutes to, to get into it. I'm like, oh yeah. All I said was 100% the education written for, for about two selections by non dyslexic. So I don't think, you know.

 

00:20:54:15 - 00:21:00:00

Speaker 1

What, what was his face like. Every so that.

 

00:21:00:02 - 00:21:05:22

Speaker 2

He's wearing some bold shoes I think.

 

00:21:06:00 - 00:21:08:00

Speaker 1

He was think about where he works. Of course he.

 

00:21:08:00 - 00:21:11:11

Speaker 2

Was like yeah I'm really called Sperry.

 

00:21:11:14 - 00:21:17:00

Speaker 1

Sperry I, I know what you're talking about. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But yeah I spy. Yeah, I totally know if I.

 

00:21:17:00 - 00:21:18:13

Speaker 2

Knew where.

 

00:21:18:13 - 00:21:20:05

Speaker 1

They blue or tan.

 

00:21:20:07 - 00:21:21:06

Speaker 2

Tan.

 

00:21:21:07 - 00:21:23:22

Speaker 1

Okay. There's a navy blue one okay.

 

00:21:23:22 - 00:21:33:18

Speaker 2

Oh yeah. Oh. My thought was like, I got to deal with these people.

 

00:21:33:20 - 00:21:36:03

Speaker 1

Very different.

 

00:21:36:05 - 00:22:01:01

Speaker 2

You know, the crazy part is they all live at the school. They they have dorms that are apartments for the teachers. Yeah. Those was like, I ain't living up there. No way. And they're all all the wage work, you know, at school now there. You know, this was like once ancestral there. And so of course, they all live there.

 

00:22:01:01 - 00:22:03:20

Speaker 2

And. Yeah. I mean.

 

00:22:03:20 - 00:22:11:17

Speaker 1

That's that's just a different world. It's a very different world. And there's a lot of it that exists all throughout. I mean.

 

00:22:11:18 - 00:22:37:17

Speaker 2

It's a different world. But I was I was pissed. Yeah. You know, in this, you know. They think that they're doing good for the kids. But no clue. Now,

 

00:22:37:19 - 00:22:47:17

Speaker 2

They just mingle in their little circle, and no outsiders are allowed in.

 

00:22:47:19 - 00:22:54:07

Speaker 2

And that's why we get rinse and repeat with kids.

 

00:22:54:09 - 00:22:55:09

Speaker 1

Not for the kids.

 

00:22:55:11 - 00:23:00:21

Speaker 2

No. Don't.

 

00:23:00:23 - 00:23:04:19

Speaker 1

And so many things are not for the kids.

 

00:23:04:21 - 00:23:30:07

Speaker 2

Right. And I was this whole, you know, whole hockey thing. And at the end of the day, you know, they they fired the athletic director who was the head coach at the last second. I don't know. We still don't know why or whatever it is. But at the end of the day, it was, you know, kids are supposed to be moving here from different countries in a couple of weeks and just kind of taking their time.

 

00:23:30:07 - 00:23:52:04

Speaker 2

They didn't have any. They didn't have anybody lined up. They didn't have. Parents are going crazy. They think, you know, they're for the kids. You know, that's what they always they always do. They all no matter if we're talking about this school or you know, where we are, New York or, Ashley and South Carolina, they all are.

 

00:23:52:04 - 00:24:04:08

Speaker 2

They all think they're for the kids and doing it for the right for the kids, and that's that piece that they're not because they've never been in that chair. Yeah.

 

00:24:04:10 - 00:24:19:08

Speaker 1

And when this goes out season for pretty much everyone's back in school, which I just can't even I, I mean, obviously I've been traveling so much that I haven't even grabbed onto the summer, but I'm like, holy shit.

 

00:24:19:08 - 00:24:36:05

Speaker 2

Like where Illinois starts. Obviously two weeks ago, you know, started, you know, Kendall, her kids started last week. I think majority of Illinois is like August 15th. Yeah. You know.

 

00:24:36:05 - 00:24:36:11

Speaker 1

Right.

 

00:24:36:12 - 00:24:39:03

Speaker 2

I it is right when we start.

 

00:24:39:05 - 00:24:53:05

Speaker 1

Yeah. So ours is obviously I feel like we just finished which we kind of did because I, I mean we we now it's been a month, not even a month that we've been out because it's oh no, it's been a month. I think graduation was like on the 28th. So.

 

00:24:53:05 - 00:24:55:01

Speaker 2

We basically all schools get two months, right?

 

00:24:55:06 - 00:24:56:10

Speaker 1

Yeah, exactly. It's like.

 

00:24:56:13 - 00:24:58:18

Speaker 2

Anything, however, however that falls.

 

00:24:58:23 - 00:24:59:23

Speaker 1

However they shake it out.

 

00:25:00:04 - 00:25:00:21

Speaker 2

Yeah.

 

00:25:00:23 - 00:25:24:14

Speaker 1

It's it's eight weeks because it's again, it's I mean, I think private school gets I think some private schools get a little bit longer. Maybe it's like 12, ten weeks or whatever. Yeah. But yes, I think it's mostly eight weeks, and it's just how it kind of how it shakes out. But it is,

 

00:25:24:16 - 00:25:29:04

Speaker 2

And I know that's different states, right.

 

00:25:29:06 - 00:25:33:07

Speaker 1

Which as we know, different states are now going to be doing a whole different education thing.

 

00:25:33:07 - 00:25:44:19

Speaker 2

In South Dakota. That's where I was going to go with that. Right? Yeah. We think it's different before now. Like just the breaks. Wait till.

 

00:25:44:21 - 00:25:47:12

Speaker 2

The rest of it gets involved.

 

00:25:47:13 - 00:25:51:14

Speaker 1

Yeah. When do you do you think that's like two years?

 

00:25:51:16 - 00:25:52:22

Speaker 2

Oh I think it's happening already.

 

00:25:53:02 - 00:25:54:05

Speaker 1

Now you do okay like.

 

00:25:54:05 - 00:26:02:17

Speaker 2

I don't it's not going to happen this year because it hasn't been fully. Yeah. Passed to each state. But people are in people's ears already.

 

00:26:02:18 - 00:26:15:01

Speaker 1

Totally. But do you think like us as parents and like the kids like, let's say you're not political and you don't know the education system stuff all of a sudden the do you think like two years or do you think really like next school season? I think maybe next school.

 

00:26:15:04 - 00:26:35:16

Speaker 2

So let's see here. The hard part is to answer your question is parents don't really even know what's going on right now. Ain't no you know and I'm not meaning that in in yeah. Disrespect the behind the scenes of just just remember. Yeah. When you and I, when school math was one the way is year was back then.

 

00:26:35:16 - 00:27:25:02

Speaker 2

Now it's completely different. I think you're going to see those kind of things. That's when parents are going to be right when it change. Yeah. So that's I don't think parents are really going to notice. Much different because not much is going to change. Where it's going to change is how they, administer different things. Where I see this going with its states is people think they have the next best science curriculum or geometry curriculum, or where that they can sell it to the state of Illinois, to the south, the state where now that they are now, every school is getting the, the who who would be science program.

 

00:27:25:04 - 00:27:50:20

Speaker 2

Right. So now they've just made a million bucks or whatever it is just mentioned that that's the problem that's going to lie is that it's easier to get to your state representative than you was to Washington. And I understand where, you know, Trump and his administration was going with that, making it easier to get there, make it easier to make changes.

 

00:27:50:22 - 00:27:54:12

Speaker 2

But.

 

00:27:54:14 - 00:28:00:21

Speaker 2

Again, nobody is for the kids, right? When I say nobody, a small percentage of people.

 

00:28:00:23 - 00:28:13:23

Speaker 1

But it's not. It's it's like. What? No, it's they're not really actually thinking of the kid. The kid in the chair. They're not. It's it is a black and white. This is what we need to do. And here's the reasons. And it's like, okay, the kids will just fall in line. Right?

 

00:28:14:00 - 00:28:40:01

Speaker 2

And you say a few buzzwords and it makes you think, oh, they're doing right. They're doing good, right. And that's that. That's the that's the hard part for us. You know, the dyslexia side of it is really going to get hurt the most. In in this. And that's where we're going to try, you know, it, you know, and try and counter by what that is, is that the people who have it, we talk about this all the time, you brat.

 

00:28:40:01 - 00:28:47:21

Speaker 2

Families. And y'all, think that they know what they're talking about because they say the right buzzwords and parents struggling all they hear the key words.

 

00:28:48:00 - 00:28:49:10

Speaker 1

Yeah. They're like, oh, oh, this is.

 

00:28:49:10 - 00:29:06:13

Speaker 2

Going to help my kids. Like, you don't know. Oh, this sounds good. This sounds like it's going to help. It's actually not. It's actually going to hurt because, you know, obviously your, 48 year professional at, dyslexia because I have it, you know, it is what it is.

 

00:29:06:15 - 00:29:26:08

Speaker 1

Yeah. And again, like, even thinking back, like Richard Branson and all that when I was struggling right to grab onto something when we were getting Montgomery diagnosed, it's like, right when people are outspoken, you feel like they know what they're talking about, but you have to like you have to dig a little deeper. But, well, we're going to talk more about this obviously, as season four continues.

 

00:29:26:08 - 00:29:30:22

Speaker 1

I mean, seriously, how crazy this is 101 episodes.

 

00:29:31:00 - 00:29:32:11

Speaker 2

Doctor.

 

00:29:32:13 - 00:29:33:00

Speaker 1

What'd you say?

 

00:29:33:00 - 00:29:35:05

Speaker 2

Soccer stalker?

 

00:29:35:07 - 00:29:56:04

Speaker 1

He said soccer. I was like, okay, how random is that? It's soccer. Well, look, 101 episodes. Think of all the people we found. So thank God. And so we'll leave it at that, because I know you got some stuff. I've got some stuff. And, And then I'm headed off to the concert and to San Diego.

 

00:29:56:06 - 00:29:56:17

Speaker 2

I'm not sure I.

 

00:29:56:21 - 00:30:13:18

Speaker 1

I didn't even talk about what happened on the airplane in the fire. So just look up Denver, Miami fire and that we were part of all of that. All right, you guys, you know what to do. Like rate review and share. And you don't know who needs to hear this series, so you don't know who's going back to the school year or getting started and doesn't know what to do and needs to listen.

 

00:30:14:00 - 00:30:27:10

Speaker 1

Listen back to the episodes of what to do before your IEP, your 504. If you have questions, just DM us. We will answer. We are here for you. And again, thank you for joining another episode of Word Blindness. Dyslexia experts and.