My neighbours son has just been turned down a place at a local college, where he wants to study woodworking and carpentry, because he is dyslexic.
Since when does being dyslexic stop you learning a craft?
Tuesday 9 March 2010
WTF!!!
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I'm dyslexic. HMTQ still trusted me with an M16 and radio and 29 men.
In a couple of hours i'll be collecting a prize for my academic efforts last year.
Biggest problem I can't spell for shit so thank god for the F7 key. Meanwhile I have an apptitude for woodworking and engineering.
Seriously, whats their point?
I run my own company - have two degrees and IQ of 135, been a consultant and worked for some of the best engineering companies in the world. So I'm crap at spelling and have just corrected every word in this post, but so what - if a crappy college wants to turn people down for being dyslexic I think he'd be best to try somewhere else. Dyslexia isn't a handicap, it's a challenge waiting to be faced.
Mutherfuching elitist arrogant rat-bastards.
Tell him to find an apprenticeship at a local shop. Better-paying and FAR better educational environment in the real-world than in some ivory-tower bastion of assholes.
One of the guys in my EMT-Basic class is dyslexic; in fact, he spent most of grade school in special-ed classes.
He also one of the best EMTs I've ever worked with, is the training officer for his volunteer fire department, and had the highest grade on the National Register test of anyone in the class (which included two engineers, one Navy nuc tech, and an ex-spook who speaks five languages). And he did it with sheer determination, perseverence, and sweat.
He still can't spell for shit, and you don't read his numbers, you have him read them, and write them down for yourself. Other than that, I'd trust him to treat myself or any member of my family.
Oh, and he's a hell of a woodworker, too!!
Over here, a dyslexic would be admitted and given extra assistance.
Being a fuckwit never stopped anyone being a teacher.
Or a politician...
My Brother is badly Dyslexic hasnt stopped him from running a number of very sucsesfull companies. Me im just a crap at spelling and maths.
I was an instructor in the navy nuclear program. We had students enter the program that showed signs of dyslexia. We did not really care. What mattered was if they could stand the watch and operate the machinery. If they could do that and were dyslexic, too, double congratulations!
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