Dyslexia is an asset, and I reject victim culture

I have repeatedly stated that I am mildly dyslexic, and I view the associated unchangeable traits as *assets* and not liabilities.

Screw the “victim culture”.

I will *not* comply with any “victim” culture.

I revel in being unique.

●》Telling students that reading and writing is racist is pure, unbridled evil.

These teachers and school administrators need to be fired.

Fired *verbally* of course, because they are obviously illiterate.

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“Students in a Seattle English class were told that their love of reading and writing is a characteristic of “white supremacy,” in the latest Seattle Public Schools high school controversy.

The lesson plan has one local father speaking out, calling it “educational malpractice.”

Students in a Seattle English class were told that their love of reading and writing is a characteristic of “white supremacy,” in the latest Seattle Public Schools high school controversy.

The lesson plan has one local father speaking out, calling it “educational malpractice.”

The Seattle high schoolers were told that “Worship of the Written Word” is white supremacy because it is “an erasure of the wide range of ways we communicate with each other.”

By this definition, the very subject of World Literature and Composition is racist. It also chides the idea that we hyper-value written communication because it’s a form of “honoring only what is written and even then only what is written to a narrow standard, full of misinformation and lies.”

The worksheet does not provide any context for what it actually means. …”

mynorthwest.com ↗

Read the linked article on mynorthwest.com ↗

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  1. Tom Kirkmanreplying to Roger Lauricella

    is this a trick question?

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