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Subject: Re: going to a college with dyslexia and ADD Author: Alix [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 08:28:33 11/16/06 Thu In reply to: m cochran 's message, "going to a college with dyslexia and ADD" on 12:05:41 11/06/06 Mon M, When Kerry said the military was just for people who did not or could not be successful in college, he was so far off base. He really stuck his big foot in his big mouth. My ex-husband was just a high school graduate. He joined the navy and signed up for the submarine service. He was educated by the navy to be a sonar operator. After 20 years, he retired as a Chief Petty officer (the highest rank for a non-officer). For the next 25 years, he worked in Egypt teaching their navy how to operate submarines. Does this sound like a loser? Your son is an adult, how about treating him like one. Alix [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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[> [> Subject: Re: going to a college with dyslexia and ADD Author: m cochran [Edit] Date Posted: 16:57:46 12/16/06 Sat To Alix, I believe you missed the point of my agreement with Mr. Kerry. If a child is/has been struggling in school as the result of a learning disability and the lack of teachers willing to teach to his/her learning style, college seems like a daunting task. As a result, many of these children think that just because the military promises an education at the tax payers exspence it is an easy answer to their life long learning difference. That is the farthest from the truth and those men/women doing the job of enlisting will not explain that to them, perhaps unwittingly, in all farness to those men/women doing a good job for the armes services. I have no issue with them. What I do have an issue with is that those that are not educable to their learning style are frustrated and sometimes feel that the military is their only option and yes, they will end up in the conflict area if they are only able to perform at an infantry level. If you read the fine print correctly, none of the academies will allow for accomedations and none of the test taking before enlisting are allowed accomedations that most higher education institutions do actually allow. It was not my intention to bash anyone in the military, just to state some facts of life in regards to education and what the lack of it brings. And by the way, my son is an adult now, a fine, well mannered one with great civic responsibility as a volunteer fire fighter, but one how will always struggle with the reading and comprehension of any of the testing he undergoes. It is the truth today, that he will really need a higher education degree of some sort to go where it is he wants to go, and that is the hard truth in today's world and he recognizes it. He understands his weaknesses and strengths and that is why I am doing the "asking" for him.