She Couldn’t Read Her Own Diploma: Why Public Schools Pass Students but Fail Society
1st September 2025
A nineteen-year-old college student is suing her former high school for negligence because she graduated despite being unable to read or write.
She probably ought to sue her parents as well, since they were responsible for making sure that the school was doing its job.
The student, Aleysha Ortiz, graduated from Hartford Public Schools in the spring of 2024 with honors.
She earned a scholarship to attend the University of Connecticut, where she’s studying public policy. But while she was in high school, she had to use speech-to-text apps to help her read and write essays, and despite years of advocating for support for her literacy struggles, her school never addressed them.
She obviously had the intelligence to do well. The schools just dropped the ball, big-time.