Learning Difference and the World's Public Schools

Fact: Around 20% of all children in public school worldwide are dyslexic and beyond that a total of around 40% of all children in public school worldwide have some sort of learning difference that cannot be addressed properly within that school setting.

The problem with All public education is that the teacher has to direct the teaching for the C student or the average student. This leaves the A student and the student not doing well left to deal with their problems mostly alone. The more students per classroom(especially 30 and above) the worse the problem is.

If any learning difference children are in any classroom the teachers need special training to teach those children because the normal shaming methods to get children to respond only destroys learning difference children psychologically because there aren't circumstances to make shaming work for them because they cannot learn using standard teaching methods. For example, my now 13 year old daughter who is dyslexic would come home from school when she was 6 in first grade telling me she would rather die that go back to school because of the shaming. By age 7 we were affluent enough to put her in a School for learning difference called Chartwell School in California which is one of the best in the world. It has won awards from the Governor of California and President Bush for being one of the greenest schools in the U.S. It is all solar and natural lighting and even water is pumped up into the schools water tank with solar power here in California. At one science Fair there I attended while my daughter still went there about 15 Chinese from the Chinese ministry of education wanted to build about 15,000 duplicate schools in China both building and solar wise and to duplicate the educational system for it is the best for teaching both learning difference and most all children on earth as well as an ideal green platform of education.

My mother and her mother were dyslexic. I'm now 61. I have a 35 year old son and a 13 year old daughter who are dyslexic like my mother and grandmother. I'm not dyslexic but it is genetically passed on if you are related to anyone who has dyslexia. I also have a 20 year old daughter who is not dyslexic. However, all 3 of my children are extremely bright. For example, my son was a computer tech in his twenties because he was extremely above average in math and science subjects but had difficulty in Spelling and English composition which was hard when he first started college. He could get A's in Science and Computer programming languages like C++ but had extreme difficulty with spelling and composition because of dyslexia. So when he returned to college at age 29 to become a nurse after he married he was tested and was surprised that he had 150 IQ. So even though I knew he was this bright all along he didn't realize just how bright he was because of his difficulty with English spelling and composition. However, at 30 he talked to a Dyslexic College Professor and the man told him he could do anything anyone else could he just might have to study longer and harder in subjects like English. By that time spelling checkers on computers had solved my son's spelling problems and he found he could write very well if he understood what was required by the English professor.

Also, if you are in California and you have a learning difference child the public school officials will try to keep you from finding out what is the problem. So you will likely have to have your child tested privately and to hire a lawyer to get the public school system to take you seriously. If you don't do this then your child likely will fall through the cracks of the system.

What the shaming system in California public schools does to boys is it tends to make them angry especially in junior high and beyond if they are learning difference including dyslexic. About 75 to 80% of people in prison worldwide are dyslexic or learning difference and are there because they were shamed, embarrassed and maligned rather than taught as young innocent children. As this problem is addressed worldwide you will slowly see the prison systems worldwide empty out as people become more and more aware of this problem all over the world.