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TEACHERS, ALEX WAS A KID AT RISK!
Do you want him in your classroom?
ALEX was a kid at risk. But, he is different. He is an example of fortitude & hope for all At- Risk Kids because he told us about all he had done to get the help he needed from FVYD. Who knew?
Alex was 13 years old & he had been in 4th grade (for almost a 4th time). Alex was always in trouble in school. He fought and bullied others to get suspended regularly! His teachers tried to like him & support him, each year, but they had long ago given up. The other 4th grade- 9-year-old classmates were just scared of him.
One day his school life changed, he gotten himself moved to a Behavioral School to made FVYD fix his Reading problem. That is right, he made it happen! His mother said to me, his teacher and also his sister had begged them -for her brother. Mother had said “no” because this youth had had a Medical Eye Exam 20/20 acuity- his eyes were healthy & fine.
Then ALEX arranged FVYD to meet his parents at his home– to explain to them just how FVYD works to Recover Reading Skills & “yes” our simple work is only for healthy eyes. We are a non-profit 501c3 ESSA-supportive program for schools! Now back to the teachers…
Lets ask Teachers just how troublesome in class At-risk kids are– they have plenty to say & all was not good! Working as a Substitute all grades/all subjects & on youth crisis and also suicides units, allow us to know well & share with you about,” just how rough” most of these frustrated and downtrodden youth are.”
But first let’s look at the symptoms page—because…. Who knew this is what these kids are actually seeing & trying to read through one-word- at -a -time for their life? And…. now with persistent troublesome behaviors for teachers and parents, too. Their parents, many who do not read well either – may have these same issues as conditioned traits?.
It doesn’t need to be this way!
Open school doors for FVYD so we can fix this for all these at-risk students & youth!
Then our Teachers can teach to an inclusive, peer equal & calmer classroom and all can learn!
WHY WE CHOSE MENTAL ILLNESS instead of READING FOR OUR KIDS! FVYD BLOGS —Three (3-part) Series:
(1) Let’s let our kids avoid mental illness in Elementary school;
(2) It only gets worse in Middle School: but… FVYD can help!
(3) Alternatively, death or dying in High School- Parents & FVYD choose life!
Part 1 Let’s let our kids avoid mental illness. It is so simple to make our kids truly happy –to be just peer equals & students in school! All we need to do is, “Save 6 of them” in each class of 30- from developing their anguish more fully. This happens when these few kids each begin to feel “less-than” the other classroom kids there at school between 3rd -5th grade. To Save Them– let’s first consider their current alternative behaviors & choices. Then, all parents & teachers will understand how today only we, FVYD (with a simple program & new information to share)- can keep our kids, free from STRESS & promote them happily forward to enjoy their being at school! Let me explain! _____________________________________________________________
On their life path: Kid that cannot read well in school at or after 3rd grade have a lot of stress & they often bring their cranky-self home also, for their parents to share their daily struggles! All kids ‘have to’ have something to do, pretty much all the time. Teachers are often great keeping them continually engaged & until 16 years old, when alternatively, they can work. Simple chores (remember)–do not need to be paid for. They are great tools -when all participate, but few parents use that tool effectively today to their benefit. Soon…
ELEMENTARY Schools
1.Lets first see what those few kids who can’t read- (about 6 in 30) are doing at 3rd grade while in school. When they discover they cannot read like their peers– who they truly want to emulate & be friends with their self -esteem takes a dive. Sure, they can just, ‘watch those popular kids have fun with others’ but that would make these struggling youth- seem creepy to others. So, most of these 6 don’t do that. (They do, have to do something or they know they will be bullied instead)! Instead, they begin to feel bored at school and/or they become bullies themselves -early on. Alternatively, they might start Acting- out and/or initiate some subtle aggression. (Who wants this to begin this early in our—8-9 years old kids)?
Special Service tries to help; when FVYD will instead fix the problem!
- 2. By 4th or 5th several of these kids (again about (6 +) in each class of 30) have moved now to sit in or near the back 2 row They can hide better back there. Some of those kids can see the board from back there (most do have 20/20 vision) but many still can’t read anything from it- as the teacher and chalk move across that front board. By now 5th grade it doesn’t matter that their vision when looking at blackboard/chalkboard to desk may be slow to respond to that distance. Who knows, that it might take them 2-3 seconds to (accommodate) to focus there on the board, then ‘focus to assimilate’ (absorb) the information & then again focus back on the book or the text on the paper on their desk. It then may also- take them a few more seconds, when they look up back to the board!—They already know they are left behind. They think it is normal—and, they are just dumb. (That mechanical movement for most of us takes only milliseconds). But I do think these same struggling kids might just be OK with rifles & target shooting. And…once we fix this mechanics & recover their reading skills we find out how truly SMART they are. It is the intensity of their struggle that pushes them, hard.
- 3. And then there is the kid who tries (so… hard) to do that work at their desk—but when reading silently from a book or page the text makes NO sense. (Those 6+ or more, have such difficulty (with digit span issues or word or line skipping)—so they blink a few time and/or just continue to skip lines. When they do not have a flow– they also can not’ know’ what they are reading. It is called fluency with the comprehension for what they have read.
Then, they go to Middles school as 3rd grade readers still.
Until “Schools open doors to this ESSA;2015 supportive work”& invite our remarkable work in to share !”—Then only can we, Future Visions Youth Dev. Inc FVYD non-profit 501 c3 Org. deliver a 12 week/15 minute short-inclusion program. In a 15 min. screen we select our youth with a checklist & evaluate their reading skills. Then initiate a simple 12 week/15 minute per day program –that will recover all of these issues for our struggling kids, teachers and parents too.
Lets Save our Kids! Or Mental illness might get their door open instead of FVYD!
When a DONATION means much more….
Future Visions Youth Dev. Inc FVYD
Boy do I “strongly dislike” asking all of you for your money these 28 years. That is probably why I have not done it more than once or twice. I ask—only, when our program is in a school! (So as you look through, even just the PICTURES and Testimonies on this site, –you know how greatly successful FVYD have been! We, FVYD deliver direct services and these kids need our services now, directly. For some of you, (like me), you often do not have any money to share at that moment, (& it could be a long moment for me). That is why I seldom do ask! But here I am; asking you now!
FVYD WILL BE IN SCHOOL NOW 1/2024 and I expect with the first program design for 5-6 schools; then towns …then State. We will expand this simple work across America. It is truly beautiful work—when you see these kids laugh and smile & beam with a bright light coming out of their eyes and, it happens! It is a GIFT from God!…and unlike any other.
Enlightenment, Empowerment & Self Esteem with HOPE Fulfillment! FVYD changes lives & strengthens more Goodwill!
So I ask you now—It seems the people who can respond with Donations, are often people who already do so much for others!…Lets do this for ourselves. Let’s SAVE OUR CHILDREN, KIDS-AT RISK & YOUTH! Let Superintendents know you care!
Help us, Future Visions Youth Development, Inc. for yourself! The impact of this work is huge on the school ratings also.Talk with town managers also. So you know you are a part of it, bring FVYD to them! All others can,” pray for thanks to God,” with gratitude for FVYD, we need that also!
And…that is how all of you can help us to deliver the FVYD work, together & as the essential program it is– into all schools!
“You cannot even, “Imagine, Seeing thru Their Eyes, “and; “what a beautiful site (sight) it is to see” when these kids can READ A BOOK! They are truly “thrilled” to say the least!
So let me tell you again why this FVYD work is different, special and very rewarding. As Pres. of FVYD, I founded the company 1996 & just be that part of it has been incredible. Truly be the best person that you are and/or with a prayer for our FVYD simple work, is all we need. Also a few dollars could help $1 or $2…or $20 will be spent toward our current FVYD schools, and; just 5-6 for 15 minutes/12 weeks in 4 months can build the FVYD protocol for all schools with that data. It is full of rewards for many. That thought should make you feel- so SPECIAL, also, just bringing it out to move FVYD forward!
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As President of Future Visions Youth Dev. Inc. FVYD a501c3 non profit, and its founder & often one of the” FVYD 1st school’s trainers. I delight when we to do this work over these last 28 years! I just cannot wait for these “ 1st kids again and again in the next school” to get the FVYD Tools & Eyeware –to know ”IT WAS NOT THEIR FAULT,” that they could not read. It was never their fault or their wonderful teacher’s fault or their parent’s fault.
SO, now FVYD can fix it and a small gift from you will bring it to them….all 40% who need it at one school-with Superintendent interest, support and inclusion for this essential program. (Call your local Superintendent, start the discussion about FVYD!)
You will have to call your local Superintendents also-to consider our FVYG growth (5 schools regions; 3-4 town or elementary, middle and high school-(career centers also).Those are our clients, our kids… with teachers and parents knowing these benefits first hand & towns feeling the impact on School ratings for the economic growth we need.
***8So for them and thousand of others in the future, first lets get this new ball rolling. I truly thank you for giving us, FVYD and all our Kids now the short-15 min./12 week inclusion work in all schools—
Now, you are sharing with these kids from the 40% who need your help & whose lives we,FVYD will save together by delivering them– new HOPE for the future!
Thanks for your attention to this matter!
Deborah Parker, Pres. FVYD P.O Box 312, West Rockport, Maine [email protected]
Let’s talk about the fall & Pumpkin time.
IT was the end of the school year, second half of second grade: My 7-year-old child’s teacher called to suggest my child go to bed earlier at night-as she frequently covered her head and put it down on the desk. I always do my best to support Teachers.
In this discussion with her Teacher, I explained her regular schedule for bedtime was 7:30 pm. That was as best, I thought I could do– as a single parent (& Hosp. Lab Director with 57 employees). Together, we decided that both would try to observe her behavior. ***We also had her tested for reading issues & with an Individual Educational Profile IEP. This IEP purposefully was given — as it took this child a few too many calls by her teacher each time- to get up and join the reading table. And…when her turn to read aloud was near; she was jumping around a bit in the class also, and to frequently as a result had to be isolated from the group. ( I truly did not see this behavior at home until I really had time to watch a year later… and then only with the help of a tutor).
Special Services: What was found in the IEP was “a short-term memory deficit and auditory deficit” also Attention Deficit ADD was suggested. I was totally blown away, I saw —none of these behaviors at home). Then, I took her to a good Medical Eye Doctor—no problem with her “medical eye acuity”. It was better than normal (20/10). So in-school with Special Services (SS) she would receive help.
Another long year would end—with no progress. Notably, this child’s behavior is getting difficult both school and home. (Meanwhile, I , her parent am getting my Masters degree in Behaviors.
Standardized National Reading/ Math Assessment Tests.
Now, Pumpkin time Teachers in 4th grade know this time well! The middle of October & in their classrooms our 4th grade Students would be taking their Standardized National Reading/ Math Assessment Tests. This is a time of general concern for all! The teachers see it as a time for evaluation of their ability to be effective teachers. And the kids get extra work focused on Reading and Math. Some kids are not proficient in either reading or math, and may get additional Ed Tech support.
Back to the child, This 4th grade year the student Reading score is still at 3rd grade. She is almost 9 years old in the 2nd half of 4th grade Soon, it was I, who was jumping up and down-this time with the Asst Principal. (She tested the child again–MacMillan Reading test-3rd grade still and it would stay there- one- more years.
This after 4th grade summer….
The Asst. Principal sent her home with 10 books, she did have very good intentions –but the child could not read any of those books & now with a Reading Tutor (a wonderful Maine 4th grade Reading Ed Tech – her grandmother). She saw the problem& described it as—something funny with her eyes. Meanwhile for these 2+ years I was still actively researching 4 libraries & across the nation by phone—no internet yet. Looked everywhere no help, 2nd year of Behavioral masters degree! Something had to give—her behavior was changing and not for the best. Many symptoms were displayed in her behavior—who knew?
As her 5th grade began in early Oct. the child fell running around the pool! She was on crutches for a long while- (a month+) as her foot, just bruised, was sensitive (but also an attention getting-distraction). This child was very smart and used a lot of conditioned avoidant behavior to decrease her stress and anxiety.
– At school she was avoiding her 3rd grade reading group (3.4 Woodcock Mastery Test).
Meanwhile, on a bleacher I heard a Doctor’s name. We got an appointment with THAT Doctor in October 1995 & with that result from this special doctor—I went to church because she needed glasses and therapy. Insurance did not cover the services needed-they are not medical they are well health and clinical educational supportive work. Got the money, that night I rented out our house for 2 months.
“Today my mom found out what is wrong with my eyes.” Meanwhile……. that day, my child writes in her daily journal at school after the help was found for her Reading Skills Recovery.
Angry Man was really her Mother—it had taken so long to find the answer for her child (and all others) but when she looked up she was truly GRATEFUL!
From there on, Life is good in school.
