If, as has been suggested above, inertia prevents the schools from improving their methods of teaching students with learning disabilities, home schooling must remain an option. The home schooling environment is not subject to such limitations.

I have never suggested inertia is a reason, mostly we don't put enough money into it. In addition there is a lot of parental opposition to change in schools as I have pointed out.

That is why (time after time on this thread) I have agreed with home education as an option. I have even suggested a good case can be made for subsidising it. But it has to be education, it has to be structured (in whatever you way the home educator thinks might be best or appropriate) and it most certainly has to be measureable in some way or other.

If you don't think education should be structured or measureable, and it is clear that some people don't, then why call it "education"? Home or otherwise?

"But why is it taking so long for the "powers that be" to implement the necessary changes, why aren't teachers in North America being taught about Dyslexia? I know that the ignorance that has surrounded Dyslexia 25 years ago is still with us now. We have done seven presentations to Federal and Provincial "Service Providers" and Pro-D Days for teachers in the last three months and at every single one of them we get the same comments. The Teachers and Service Providers all need more information about Dyslexia because they haven't gotten the training they need to understand or accommodate it."

I did put an answer to this earlier. My answer was related to the UK, though I suspect it applies to most countries.

Try here:

Subject: RE: BS: Home Education UK
From: Folkiedave - PM
Date: 03 Oct 09 - 07:34 AM