Blue State Blues: This Hartford Public High School Grad Can’t Read. Here’s How It Happened.
30th September 2024
When 19-year-old Aleysha Ortiz told Hartford City Council members in May that the public school system stole her education, she had to memorize her speech.
Ortiz, who was a senior at Hartford Public High School at the time, wrote the speech using the talk-to-text function on her phone. She listened to it repeatedly to memorize it.
That’s because she was never taught to read or write — despite attending schools in Hartford since she was 6.
Ortiz, who came to Hartford from Puerto Rico with her family when she was young, struggled with language and other challenges along the way. But a confluence of circumstances, apparent apathy and institutional inertia pushed her haphazardly through the school system, according to Ortiz, her attorney and district officials.
Those officials, in statements that her attorney says display “shocking” educational neglect, have acknowledged that Ortiz never received instruction in reading.
Government schools. Union teachers. Results as you see them.
September 30th, 2024 at 16:46
How about mom and dad. I learned to spell on a cereal box at age 4. How about she should have applied herself when she had the chance. SHE was there for 18 years why not blame the slug with the phone. If breathing were not a voluntary reflex, she would be dead.