When a FISHING STORY affects real life !

Lets just go fishing!
The first steps in life and learning come from home. Those steps should include the learning of –how to play & join in groups & take turns with a friend (this from Piaget; Assimilation with Accommodation in Human Development) Then, life goes on!

Elementary school should be fun. In 1st grade life changes and we see & grow new skills. The teacher begins with a class of 18 kids & decides to take them on his/her new path! This path forward (grades;1st-3rd) will take them all to the bus& eventually all are going to the lake to fish.! All the kids appear ok at first walking but, then several of these small children stub their toe, twist their ankle and/or just fall down. They will get up! As they grow more, they learn to see the pathway using more awareness. Or so we think.! In late 2nd and third grades they continue to learn & play together! Not all but some can hop, jump & run well too! Others can not.. Some can make friends easily while some do not!

Then Life gets a little hard for a few 3rd-4th graders.

This happens when……the teacher gave them a little book about Fishing & a few cannot read it! It is then about 3rd grade & around 8-years-old, when they all are trying new challenges that some have difficulty doing—this task separates them away from their classmates in their abilities. No student wants that separation. (They want inclusion & with peer equality most of ALL. ( I know this because I asked them in youth crisis centers and on a youth suicide unit).

It could be just this- one boulder in their path- that stops them from getting that. On their path some think the rock is a pebble and they just continue. For others, several in fact (today 40%), they must stop, here!. They CAN NOT climb over, get over or go around that huge rock!

And we all know how hard they try…again and again at this age & for years! On this matter, they simply do not have the working skills to do it! >>>>> The challenge is not with what is being taught because they can “listen” for that. But too often for some students now it is that “here and now” –their pathway ends for fishing. Too soon it has become way too complicated. With the WORST PART OF ALL OF IT, is that their peers can see their struggle. (Source: Locke & Bandura, 2003; Negative self-efficacy and goal effects revisited) The problem is simple….

So, who knows how to move that boulder —Was it created in these student’s mind? (No, it is not in their mind)! It stands right there before them. It is there in that moment when in life- within their Reading Group with the first paragraph of the first book they try to read that life changes. It is there over a short time as the print size drops, and they simply cannot read the line of print before them and /or understand it. It is then their life changes) So, they try again and again with the same results. But they see…their little friends can do this small task and they can not! The skill is only blocked. Reading requires the visual ability to move with agility, alignment and purpose. It does exist their in their body—so let’s open it up, align it to get it working right. It is that simple.

Otherwise, for many this blockage lasts forever. They never get on the bus with their friend(s)! They have lost their “Peer Equality!” Right here & forever! {Special Services will step in & try to assist these young students with a wide variety of interventions to get over that rock. The ROCK is still there & kids are left behind here}. What is being asked of our kids is already too difficult because each one has a lack of efficacy in their visual skills—NO ONE AT SCHOOL YET KNOWS HOW TO FIX THIS FOR THEM NOW. So what these kids think, feel and FEAR is life. (WE DO have that answer, FVYD only has it! …but Education needs it ! Time for Change, don’t you think!

Call Superintendents or our President to get it in all schools, today! More to come!