Reading Law, Doe's Not "Make it so"

"Let me count the ways" a quote I seam to recall from my early childhood when 'they' were allowed to beat the learning into you as if, you were being lazy, resistant and difficult deliberately just to spite them and make the teachers look bad in front of their peers.

No wonder the, so called, difficult bad boys soon started to group together developing an "us and them" attitude working on ways to get their own back and gaining kudos from taking the beatings with a smile, sort of, competing to see who could qualify for the most unofficial suspensions and/or even better exclusions.

Some 50 years later there seams to have been little or no change in the Industrial Model Pipe-line Education disproportionately delivering the 30% functionally illiterate into the revolving-door youth estate wherever except, there are multiple equally, sort of, ineffective reading schemes / programs still falling short of making text truly Accessible for the majority who are still being excluded from participating in learning in 21st Digital Century.

Nevertheless, in the 21st Century "Digital" programs have been delivering "Digital Literacy" for more than a decade, recently backed-up by "Accessible Regulations" for e-learning websites, WCAG 2.1 with, DSE users in education and/or the workplace ISO 30071.1 "Colour Contrast Calibration" as "reasonable adjustments" of Display Screens to mitigate debilitating early onset vision stress, eye-strain, Computer Vision Syndrome or Screen Fatigue.

As a biproduct of customising individuals display screen interface there has been an average 20% reduction in visual repetitive stress injuries and, surprise, surprise, a matching gain in Access to Text on-screen a "significant gain in reading rates" for the functionally illiterate in education and recovery of lost productivity in the workplace amounting to around one day a week.

So, the questions remains have they been barking-up the wrong tree for last 50 years blaming the poor readers for having a low IQ or has the recent release of formal "Accessibility Regulations" serendipitously bridged the barriers to reading fluently ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ti29cPuGg6o&list=LL&index=17

https://www.screenrisk.com/

https://co.chalkbeat.org/2021/7/30/22601955/6-takeaways-from-a-1-5-million-evaluation-of-colorados-reading-law?utm_source=Chalkbeat&utm_campaign=3bd65358d4-New+York+Rise+038+Shine+How+schools+can+meet+the+n&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_9091015053-3bd65358d4-1296784622