Volume 26, Issue 1
WisconsinChristianNews.com
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Honors Student Sues After Graduating Without Being Able to Read
By Alex Newman April 2025
for me, so everyone knew. I would cry knowing the people who had big titles knew this was happening, and no one stepped up to do something about it.”
This is actually very common. There are hundreds of pub- lic-schools across America that do not have one single stu- dent who ranks even “proficient” in reading on the U.S. Department of Education’s National Assessment of Ed- ucational Progress. Less than one in three students nationally are at or above proficiency in reading or math, NAEP data show. And among adults, federal data show about half are in the bottom two of five cat- egories, meaning they cannot really read. According to her lawsuit, Ortiz took a test in sixth grade that showed her reading ability below a first- grade level. But it was not until one month before grad- uating with honors that the school acknowledged Ortiz “required explicitly taught phonics” to be able to learn how to read, just as virtually every child everywhere who is learning a phonetic writing system. Of course, experts have been sounding the alarm on the exact same reading quackery that handicapped Ortiz since it was first tried and exposed in the mid-1800s in Massachu- setts under government-school pioneer Horace Mann. This writer and Dr. Samuel Blumenfeld wrote a book a decade ago documenting the whole history of this deliberate creation of reading disabilities titled “Crimes of the Educators.” Continued on Page 38
Despite graduating from high
school with “honors” and being accepted into the Uni- versity of Connecticut on a scholarship, 19-year-old gov- ernment-school victim Aleysha Ortiz cannot read or write. At all. Literally. And
she’s hardly alone. Now, with help from an attorney, Ortiz is suing the city and the school board. And the national media is paying attention. Ortiz moved to Hartford, Connecticut, from Puerto Rico as a young child and entered the local govern- ment school in first grade. She spent a full 12 years there, costing taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dol- lars. But instead of teaching her literacy or writing, gov- ernment school staff bullied and harassed her, according to the lawsuit alleging “negligence” and “infliction of emotional distress” extending through many years. “My time in Hartford Public Schools was a time that I don’t wish upon anyone,” Ortiz told News 8 WTNH, one of the first outlets to pick up the story. “Every first day of school, I would tell the teacher I cannot read and write so please be patient
Ortiz is hardly alone. Another lawsuit in Tennessee was filed by a victim who graduated from government school with a 3.4 GPA — and no ability to read his high-school diploma, as the ruling observed. Last month a federal appellate court sided with him. “William’s most salient ‘circumstance’ for our purposes was that — with proper instruction — he can learn to read,” the court ruled.
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