At the May 8 Board of Education meeting, while discussing funding for dyslexia training and intervention in the budget, board President Brad Young expressed his belief that advocacy should focus on other areas and told those in the public meeting, “The two or three students that committed suicide last year ... they can’t read now, can they?”
It is unbelievable that Mr. Young, as president of the Board of Education, an elected official and appointed leader, would make such an egregious, insensitive and flippant remark in a public forum as a way to drive home his opinion. It shows lack of decorum and ignorance of the issues at hand.
Just moments before, parents gave heart-wrenching speeches about how their middle and high school students have suffered emotionally, and how they were just recently identified as dyslexic and reading at a second- or third-grade level.
People in the room were moved to tears at the students’ stories, and then Mr. Young comments about student suicides and how those children can’t read anymore?
It is beyond inappropriate and showed lack of compassion or understanding of the struggle...
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