My story of Resistance Part 2 I became an Education Refuser. I rejected reading, writing and number. It did not make sense. I was put in the Special Needs Class. I couldn’t read well and not out loud and not the books they gave us which I thought were facile, pointless and uninteresting and teachers didn’t have time to explain. ‘ Students with dyslexia may avoid reading because it can be stressful and tiring. As a result, they can end up missing valuable reading practice and fall behind their classmates. This can hurt their self-esteem.’ (Gavin, 2013). In the special needs class, we coloured-in and laid tables (the wrong way round) for dinner. It was not really a class but about five of us pupils, some with downs-syndrome or autism and me, who sat with a dinner lady, we didn’t really do anything, we observed, marked time, waited for lunchtime. I wondered why I was there. Gavin (2013) believes that, ‘ With the proper assistance, most students with dyslexia can ...