I just realized that with the amount of time I spend on the internet, mostly facebook, I could easily have a blog a day. Yet, I still spend most of my time on facebook, where I look at profiles of people I don't know very well and have little time to express myself. But, I am addicted, like every other college age kid, leave a couple home schoolers who think it's the devil. Not, trying to offend anyone, just going along with a stereotype.
Anyway, Today, a teacher for one of my classes, I will leave him nameless, decided it would be a good idea to make every person in the class read a section in of Acts. Being dyslexic you can see were this is going. My turn came and I totally failed, reading maybe two words at a time if they were short.
After my friend got done reading we could hardly stop our selves from laughing at how terrible I had done. I'm almost positive that some of the kids thought I was joking, I wasn't.
I just can't read.
I thought the torment might have been over after the time, but the teacher made some comments about how some of the class seems a bit out of practice reading the word.
I wanted to stand up and yell something like, "Thanks for picking on a kid with a reading disability, Jerk."
I guess it's not that he was picking on me, cause he didn't know he was really. It's not really the fact that he made me seem like a bible school student that didn't read his bible... Ok, maybe it is those things, but I really think it is unfair to make kids read in class and out loud if they don't want to.
Maybe, I'm wrong. But, I think it was probably just as unenjoyable for the rest of the class, that had to listen to me struggle over Acts 2:23-26, as it was for me. I may also be wrong when thinking that if no one likes or is getting anything out of the fact that I'm struggling to read five verses then why have it as part of the class....
Someone, tell me if I'm wrong.
Sorry for venting.
-Smitty
I am just now reading this, so forgive the delayed response, but please tell me you talked to this teacher after class and told him that you have a disability. I can't believe he said what he did when he should be attune to the fact that you were having trouble reading in general...reading "the Word" is not going to make that any better. GRRRRR. Okay, so how do you write so well with such severe dyslexia? Just wondering...I'm very impressed!
ReplyDeleteI can write at my own pace... Which is incredibly slow. : )
ReplyDeleteI give props to spell checker and all the stuff that helps me on my computer.
Praise God for technology.