Dyslexia causing problems?
Hey community, I'm 15 and currently in ninth grade for the second time due to dyslexia (reading and spelling disability). I was diagnosed with it about 6-7 years ago, although I don't have a problem with reading, just with spelling. Here on my phone, I can speak into a microphone so that everything is written correctly.
Anyway, my elementary school teacher said I should go to high school, despite my spelling disability, because I'm actually quite clever.
The first two years of high school went quite well because I received a disability allowance, meaning I only get a deduction for every second spelling mistake I make in German and English. Unfortunately, this disability allowance is only permitted up to sixth grade and no longer applies from seventh grade onwards. I now have a total of four languages at school, including German, because I enjoy learning languages. I'm really good at speaking, but because of my spelling, I always get a 5 on my exams there… I'm actually quite good in the other subjects, too, but I get points deducted in some exams because of my ugly handwriting (this also has something to do with dyslexia).
But after ninth grade, I unfortunately had to repeat because I couldn't make up for all the 5s I got in languages. The thing is, no matter how many times I fail, my spelling doesn't improve.
Actually, I understand the topics everywhere so well 🙁
Should I switch to secondary school?
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My daughter also has LRS and could have claimed purely theoretically a disadvantage compensation up to her graduation. However, we decided on the advice of the class teacher, because otherwise we would bear witness that you cannot “write”.
Really? With me it was always said that you only get the disadvantage compensation up to the sixth grade.
And then?
The problem is not your wrong writing, but the handling of it. It’s about giving the phenomenon a special name. Like everything that is not innate, but what we still learn is reading and writing is a so-called cultural achievement. So, like playing, cooking, building, the….. All these things can be more or less good and that is usually no problem.
A comparison: no one will argue that food intake is an even more important thing than reading and writing. Do you know people who get a disadvantage compensation because they can’t cook? I have never heard that people have a ladder at their disposal because they have difficulty climbing trees.
It’s totally normal not to be able to. As one finds ways to take hot meals today, although one cannot cook, in previous centuries writers were asked to write things. not to be able to do this culture technique was a very, very common phenomenon; it was normal.
The read-write weakness is an invention of the school so that no one can blame this institution for failing. Finally, it must not be that it bears the responsibility that someone after 10 to 13 years of training cannot read and write correctly. If we hadn’t had the compulsory school due to nothing, LRS wouldn’t have.
Additional note: In the state of Massachusetts it was found in an investigation that before the introduction of compulsory schooling, the illiterate was lower than after.
When I left school half a century ago, this “sickness” was not known. I couldn’t write without errors, but I didn’t have LRS.
Greeting Matti
Well, I’d really like to have the drawback compensation again. That sounds mean now, but I see my fellow students who, for example, never take part orally in English lessons and always freestyle in the work and then have a 3 in certificate, while I learn a lot in teaching and much for the work and still have a 5. That’s unfair!
But LRS is not a disease, but a serious weakness. Already in primary school, teachers noticed that my fellow students have always written more error-free, while I have been making the same mistakes for years.
I’ve been able to write my name right now since the fourth grade, what I’m incredibly proud of
To study, I can’t say much about it. But even if there was no compulsory schooling, I would still go to school because I find many things very interesting
Interesting: You want to go to a place where it is unfair according to your own words. A place that creates a weakness, but you want it to be taken seriously. This is as similar to the fireman who puts fires to be able to delete them afterwards, but does not provide enough water.
Don’t get me wrong: I don’t blame you. The problem is school. It’s not about writing correctly, or learning other things, but you do what you say. Knowledge is only the means to fulfill the purpose. No teacher deserves more money when you leave school as a wise person.
To learn something, notes are not necessary. You’re upset about a phantom. Your English doesn’t change because the teacher gives you a different note. If you get a 2 overnight, your English is as good or bad as with the 5. The is what you need to understand.
Couldn’t get an attest so that the teachers take it into account
Yes, I also have one, but unfortunately you get the disadvantage compensation only up to the sixth grade.
A disadvantage compensation for diagnosed legasthenies according to ICD-10 is even obtained in studies…
This can be good, but I’m lucky I don’t have a Legasthenie but “just” the spelling weakness