And it

really doesn't need to be hard.

It doesn't need to be hard.

But yes.

Schools don't know what they don't know.

And what we're proposing doesn't fit the model that exists.

And schools are places of infinite need and limited means.

You can give their advocates advice, you said.

More often than not, families will make the same mistake that I made once upon a time.

And it is that you finally see what your kid's capable of doing and they're not ready yet to be fully accommodated, but you shout it from the rooftops and you're so excited and you think, I can teach my son or you can teach my son.

And aren't you excited that this light bulb is going to go off over their head every day? And isn't that great? And they're like, no, and you don't understand.

And you have the rug pulled out from under you.

And all of a sudden, everything you thought you believed in, in education and teachers and all of these castles in your mind start to crumble.

You, but I respected you.

boomerang approach there, I think.

Exactly, exactly.

That word does not mean what you think it means.

Part of what drives me, and this is not just my, it's not just that personality and the fact that I really am called to the work that I do, but I'm the parent of a speller myself, and my speller's older than Zach, and when he was, he started spelling, I think, a little younger, I'm not sure, but When we approached this goal, when my now 20-year-old was in fifth grade, it was a whole different world for letterboard users.

And there just was no way.

There was no way.

And that added to the fact that Evan wasn't particularly interested in me fighting that fight.

maneuvering, right? Yeah, and it's