She graduated from high school with honors but can’t read or write. Now she’s suing

[Starmix]

Aleysha Ortiz is 19 years old and dreams of one day writing stories and maybe even a book. That may sound like a reasonable aspiration for a teenager recently out of high school, but for Aleysha, it will be much harder. Despite graduating last June from Hartford Public High School in Hartford, Connecticut, and earning a scholarship to college, Aleysha is illiterate. She says she cannot read or write.

She graduated with honors, which usually means a student has demonstrated academic excellence, but the truth is she cannot read or write, and many were so happy, especially her family, for receiving many awards. Two days before graduation, she says, school district officials told her she could defer accepting the diploma in exchange for intensive services, but the girl didn't listen. Aleysha is now suing the Hartford Board of Education and the City of Hartford for negligence, as well as her special education case manager, Tilda Santiago, for negligent infliction of emotional distress.

It was learned that she had poor academic abilities during her younger years, as proven by the lawyer, but she should not have graduated with honors and other awards, being considered illiterate. In her college days, she only relied on apps that could help her understand and speak.

Source: CNN US

 

[eLdavis]

Wow, so can we really put all the blame on the school? Probably all her projects and the rest was done through apps and so on. Her story is surprising.

 

[magnus2022]

The story is confusing and i don't think it is possible except someone is doing her school work for her. Probably, she can't get honors and awards without passing her exams! The whole news is confusing and unbelievable?

 

[Starmix]

The story is confusing and i don't think it is possible except someone is doing her school work for her. Probably, she can't get honors and awards without passing her exams! The whole news is confusing and unbelievable?

It was from a CNN news , until tis time, the case is ongoing. The school administrators were to blame for the fate of the victim. She cannot read and write. She is trying her best to understand something now that she is in college. She was indeed socked when she entered in the tertiary level.

 

[Augusta]

This sounds weird, so who do we blame for this? But the school should have let her know why she was being promoted even as an illiterate

 

[Starmix]

This sounds weird, so who do we blame for this? But the school should have let her know why she was being promoted even as an illiterate

The school was sued and they paid the victim for false honors and lack of teaching, The said the student was not able to cultivate learning. She was a superb slow learner, why didn't she question the schools while she was still studying that she could not read and write, while others did?