Elizabeth Zielinski Trailer

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.

I thought you cared.

I like all of these things.

And I come in after it's gone sideways and I try to get it back on track.

And sometimes that's easy.

Sometimes it's not.

It can be hard.

And sometimes it's not attainable.

But I always say, you know, even in those cases where they won't let you use a letter board, You still don't have to settle for being taught the same thing over and over and over again, matching colors and shapes.

There's so much more you can do because maybe you can use the time you might have used teaching him how to cook, how to brush his teeth, how to get dressed.

You can use that time doing the cognitive content.

So I've created programs where kids can listen to documentaries all day long, or they can just literally just sit in the classroom and listen with their peers.

Who cares that you're not going to take the AP history test? You can sit in the AP history class and learn AP history.

Of course you can.

There's no case where you have to just accept the status quo.

There is always something you can do.

It may not be what you hoped for, depending on how difficult the challenge is with your team, but it doesn't have to stay like it was ever.

It requires the school district to really think very differently, and that's an uncomfortable and sometimes difficult process.

But for the parents, there is always a path forward, always.

But that's, you know, it's illustrative in the sense that if you think you know how far a school district will go, you don't know.