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Do you feel that school is just to hard to manage? Or maybe you don't understand what you are supposed to be learning and feel that you can't do it. Well, I read an article called, " A Conversation About Failure" by David Warlick which has some similar ideas toward these questions.
Mr. Warlick discussed how he had been to a New York school board conference where guest speaker Henry Winkler gave an inspiring speech on his problems as a child with dyslexia. He had talked about how he had not felt that he lived up to the standards for his learning and this resulted in him feeling that he was always doing something wrong. Well this effects many children, when a child has a problem with learning, he/she may feel that they are failing those who are watching to see us succeed, and that can put a lot of presssure on them. What they need is moral support from teachers and parents, maybe even friends. I think that they would need this because students may think that since they can't do the work, that they can't succed in anything and can lead to dropping out of school.

How many of our children are dropping out of high school because they feel unable.
How many of our children are being made to fell unworthy!

Another problem for them that teachers should work on (if it is occuring) is to not ignore that one person or center them out. they should get as much participation in class as everyone else. I don't think it is fair to single someone out just because they don't learn and process things as quickly. Oh, another thing is, is I don't think they should be singled out as being slow either, they arn't. We all learn at different paces.

Yet, when a person has difficulty reading, regardless of other exceptional skills, they seem to be labeled, automatically, in traditional classrooms, as slow.